What do I do now?

[Statto]

aka Equal Level Conversion (ELC). Not playing that I think I'd pass as West at teams.

[the hog]

This was a friendly team match. The "TD" was my teammate sitting south :) Blaming a teammate would be easy, but this sort of thing (minus the 3 clubs forcing part) might have just as easily arisen in pairs.

 

I was looking for some possible argument/bidding that finds the fit, that makes sense. One person suggested a double on my part instead of a 2 diamond overcall. I considered that, but with a doubleton in the other black suit and a hand not suitable for double followed by a bid of my own suit, both for strength and self-sufficient suit purposes, I chose to overcall. Maybe that was wrong, but I think the argument that a double shows a major (which happened to be the one my partner had) seems to be resulting a bit.

 

Should the West hand bid? I think so, because I tend to bid whenever there is reasonable justification for it. Not sure how teammate downgraded her hand to unworthy of opening - maybe a lack of quick tricks. But not bidding the South hand pretty much left the partnership defenseless. - Yes, I am resulting here. :)

 

Perhaps this is just another "that is just bridge" story. I was just wondering if either my partner or I missed some reasonable (perhaps complex) inference that would have supported a different action on our part.

 

It is not resulting. It is also not the possession of a 4 card M that concerns me. Bidding 2D on a suit of that execrable quality is not a bid a good player would make unless he was drunk or fooling around.