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#1 User is offline   mike1088 

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Posted 2017-June-14, 13:17

What is the double stand for?

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Posted 2017-June-14, 14:24

View Postmike1088, on 2017-June-14, 13:17, said:

What is the double stand for?



It means one of 2 things

  • the guy who is coming from pass and bid natural 2♠ over your 1♠ is nuts and he is now a dead man!
  • West is fool enough even just to imagine this might be a negative double, when 2♠ bidder is coming from pass.

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Posted 2017-June-14, 14:46

View PostMrAce, on 2017-June-14, 14:24, said:

It means one of 2 things

  • the guy who is coming from pass and bid natural 2♠ over your 1♠ is nuts and he is now a dead man!
  • West is fool enough even just to imagine this might be a negative double, when 2♠ bidder is coming from pass.


Or 3. North thought that 2♠ was a red suit takeout, and west just let him off the hook
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Posted 2017-June-14, 15:40

East limited their hand to a weak nt, perhaps with spade shortage.

West has either short of game values that can beat this or whatever they land in or gf values that can't afford to collect a mere 100 a trick.

North is on their way to the partnership desk. That's too harsh. If I'm North I have 6-6 in the reds, no defense and forgot what 2♠ means but I'm still sleeping on the couch.
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Posted 2017-June-14, 16:53

Yep, I think this means "let's get +800". Imagine West with 5 spades to QJ and some outside values, East with a minimum 1435, North has a 6-card spade suit and a maximum pass (too good for 2S but too weak for 1S at the first turn) - something like that.

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Posted 2017-June-14, 17:36

I'm (personally) looking at this double in the same way as a redouble of a takeout double: I have values in the other three suits, let's penalise the opponents wherever they end up. Not sure what North's 2♠ call's all about? If he has 6-5 red or better with no defensive values, perhaps 2NT is a better call.
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