Next stop, the Twilight Zone

[daveharty]

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Matchpoints. Your agreement is that 1NT here shows 11-14. What the heck is going on?

[kayin801]

Well our 1 + partner's "14 tops" plus the opponent who passed his partner's opening bid's 5 at most leaves opener with 20. With 20 and jump-rebiddable spades most people would have chosen something else to bid. So it's possible partner forgot our agreement, hence his ability to make a X.

 

Anyway I'd pass, maybe partner has KQJT of spades and 2 bullets.

[ggwhiz]

-730 beats -800. Yes, I'm pencilling in overtricks cause pard can't have a trump stack unless the opps are nuts.

 

I win the post mortem but this will not end well.

[Phil]

I think my partner misbid and meant 2N.

 

or, I need glasses and there is a 2N call on the other side of the table.

 

Nothing remotely makes sense.

[BunnyGo]

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[mikeh]

This reminds me of a hand I held a few years back, and posted here. I held no cards higher than a 7 and the auction proceeded 1x by partner, P P 1N all pass. Dummy hit with a 2 or 3 count.

 

When an auction sounds impossible, if one assumes the other players have their values, the answer is always that at least one player has a hand that bears little resemblance to their bidding.

 

Here, my guess is that partner has 14-15, assumes (wrongly) that you have the hcp that are about to be seen in dummy, while opener has a far more powerful hand, on which many would choose to double 1N before bidding spades again.

 

All told, you are about to witness someone at the table look at the back of the 3♠ bidding card to find out how much the opps are scoring. I'd love to see responder redouble, btw...that would truly be a fitting action, and I suspect he has the hand that would warrant it... 4 or 5 hcp and a non-spade void.

[Fluffy]

My bet is on partner to have a balanced monster, pass.

[Codo]

I will not play my partner for forgetting an agreement and double later to catch up for it. I bid 4 ♣, taking out the X, hoping that they will reach 4 ♠, which is likely our best score now...

[FM75]

Your agreement here...

 

Well, what exactly is your agreement or strategy on doubles? Maybe P expected to hear something from you and double here is for takeout, using the least space - the 3 ♠ rebid was pretty inconvenient. 0=4=5=4 and on the bidding just wants to hit your long suit? - AKxx T9876 AKxx - decent ODR hand, but inconvenient for a 2 level overcall?

 

Then again, maybe partner has something like Kxx xx AKQ Kxx? Envisions declarer unable to reach dummy, and is hoping for a half trick or so from you? (I know, it adds up to 15...)

 

Does partner have an agreement with someone else that 1N overcall in balancing seat is 15-18, and uses 11-14 to open with that partner?

 

What did you do?

 

I am expecting a dummy with max maybe 2(3)Qs and a spade void.