Double trouble

[Jinksy]

You might also bounce them from a non-making 4♠ to a non-making 5♦. Also at MPs, if you go two down undoubled or one down doubled in 4♠, you can still get a good score when they were making 3(+) diamonds.

[kenberg]

You might also bounce them from a non-making 4♠ to a non-making 5♦. Also at MPs, if you go two down undoubled or one down doubled in 4♠, you can still get a good score when they were making 3(+) diamonds.

 

This is pretty much why I now, after 4D is passed back to me, go on to 4S.

 

Quite possible 4D is making, and I am guessing that there will be nine tricks in spades. I approved of the double of 3D, the hope was that a follow-up of 3S would help patner decide whether to go or not go on to 4. But that fell through and now it is a choice between 4DX and 4S. I am not passing 4D. When a pair bids 4m and makes it on the nose, they usually score well at mps.

 

I speculate a bit about the shape of the hands. Someone has to have four hearts. After my double, partner might well have bid 4H if he had four. My rho might have made a negative double over 1S if he had four. So no guarantee, but I think there are four hearts on my left, three everywhere else. I'm thinking lho may be something like 3=4=5=1. He was thinking that after my double, if he passes, my partner will bid 4C. He is bidding 4D to keep that from happening.

 

So right or wrong, I hoped to show a strong invitation by doubling and then bidding 3S, but now I go with 4S. I doubt that they will go on to 5D but if so I hit it. Enough is enough.

[Jinksy]

I feel like both bouncing and getting out for -2(+) undoubled are less likely having gone the slow way. I would have gone with 4♦ over 3, which seems to have better prospects for both.

[kenberg]

I feel like both bouncing and getting out for -2(+) undoubled are less likely having gone the slow way. I would have gone with 4♦ over 3, which seems to have better prospects for both.

 

This may well be right.