jdgalt Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'm with PhilKing. Pard wants a spade lead against NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 OK, then I guess East has come up with some sort of really weird psych to stop the spade lead against 3NT and pard has made a lead director. [hv=pc=n&s=skqt92h65d8752c43&w=sj83h74dt96ckjt98&n=sa76hkj98dkj4c765&e=s54haqt32daq3caQ2&d=e&v=e&b=6&a=1hp1np2sdp]399|300[/hv] Gosh you're good! Would you have worked it out at the table, given all the info OP had? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Next time South will have grown a pair of huevos, and wait to Double 3NT for the Spade lead. The double of 2S can have two effects, both not good. A generated minus number as in the OP case, or a warning against 3NT. Of course, if opener was not clowning, the double either now or later will be ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Double 3NT with KJ109x and out? where are our tricks? doubling 2♠ is not safe either though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 come on, even if it's a make, no one leaves it at 2♠X :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark3 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Very hard decision to make without an inkling of South's Bridge Ability. All things being equal, South should have no more than 6 HCP. I find it hard to fathom South's distribution to be some variation of 1-2-5-5. He did not try 2n originally and West's failure to support and failure to bid 1S suggest at least 8 cards in the minors. One possibility might be a massive 5/6 or 6/5 hand by opener with sketchy reverse count.West must have a couple of spades anyway on the bidding which does not reveal the likely hood of a spade stack in south.I think the most likely scenario is that East has opened a very distributional hand with less than reverse count. South has a good 4 card Spade suit which his bidding style precludes him from showing at his first turn. South thinks that N/S may be on the way to game and is suggesting a defensive plan. West's pass of the double clouds this reasoning somewhat, but assuming I was able to make all these deductions in a timely manner, I would pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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