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This hand happened today playing with some juniors. There is not much agreement with partner, playing precision. Now opps decide to dbl 6 for penalty.

What you do? Any comments welcome

 

If you decide to bid 6, then RHO dbls again

 

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This hand happened today playing with some juniors. There is not much agreement with partner, playing precision. Now opps decide to dbl 6 for penalty.

What you do? Any comments welcome

 

If you decide to bid 6, then RHO dbls again

 

P may all too easily have a 3064 or more likely 2164 hand and has been

endplayed during the bidding. P has no reason to suspect you do not have 4

clubs since trying for heart game/slam is much more important than worrying about

clubs where support can be delayed until the 5 (or in this case 6) level.

 

It is all to easily possible the x of 6c is from just so many clubs the opp

could not bring themselves to pass (a poor decision) while we make 6n all

along when we are lucky and the heart J drops (or p has it singleton). give

p something like xx J AKxxxx Q9xx and I fail to see how the bidding would be

any different and 6n looking pretty darn good and 6c maybe not so much.

 

A 6h bid here might also work well but may run the risk of a club and a ruff

so all in all running to 6n seems reasonable. The world is not always a kind

place and anything you do could be really bad at this point.

 

I have seen some players use xx here as an option to cast doubt about strain and

that might be a useful bid here except that there may be nowhere for p to run and

all we would be doing is making matters worse. IMHO I hate that treatment and would

prefer to save my slam level xx as I have pretty good trumps rather than skeptical

about our trump suit.

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What you do?

Take back the 6 call and replace it with something sensible like 5NT perhaps? It would also not hurt to know what other options, if any, partner had on the first response with a diamond positive. Presmably with some minimum rubbish like xx x KQJxxx QJxx partner would have bid 3 over 3 so we can be confident that there is a decent hand over there.

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