[plaur]

Scoring: Imps

1NT* - pass - pass - X
all pass
* 12-14

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North opens a 12-14 NT and you double. Trick one ♠2, 3, K, 9. ♠2 is fourth best or from Hxx.
What do you play now and why?

[Echognome]

What did my double mean and why on earth did I double? We were very lucky to find partner with 12-14 of the outstanding 14-16 hcp.

Hmm. Partner is leading from either Qxx(x) or Jxx(x), neither of which are attractive, but in particular Jxx(x). So I play the K and the A (in case partner has lead from Jxxx). Then decide what I need to do next. (My inclination is to switch to a small heart.)

[plaur]

Echognome, on Feb 8 2007, 05:59 PM, said:

What did my double mean and why on earth did I double?  We were very lucky to find partner with 12-14 of the outstanding 14-16 hcp.

Hmm.  Partner is leading from either Qxx(x) or Jxx(x), neither of which are attractive, but in particular Jxx(x).  So I play the K and the A (in case partner has lead from Jxxx).  Then decide what I need to do next. (My inclination is to switch to a small heart.)

When you play the ♠A the J drops from declarer, 5 from partner. We do not have any agreements on signalling here.
What interest me is whether you want to shift to a red suit and arguments for doing so.
I dont care about the bidding, we got lucky :-)

[pclayton]

The spade tricks aren't going anywhere. I'd rather use my spade entries to get pard off a possible endplay, so I'll shift to a now heart. A ♦ isn't attractive with T9x in dummy.