[FrancesHinden]

3D. But I would rather double than pass.

[ewj]

MickyB, on Apr 10 2007, 03:52 PM, said:

I held this hand and bid 3♦, it felt fairly clear. It's from the U25 pairs in London, and was actually Butler IMPs in case that changes anyone's decision

Ed, will you be posting partner's hand over your 3♦?

For people who are interested, I doubled and this was passed out.

Dummy came down with
♠ATxx
♥KJ9x
♦QJxx
♣J

And only one of my diamonds was standing up. Fortunately however, partner came up with

♠xx
♥AQxx
♦xx
♣K9xxx

I'm not sure of the club pips exactly but partner made two ♣ tricks.

[jdonn]

Vindicated

[pclayton]

It looks like the success of 3♣ and 3♦ come down to the ♦10 and the ♣9.

This is about as thin as you can cut it.

By the way, if pard opts for 3♥ instead of pass, let the doublin' begin.

[jdonn]

pclayton, on Apr 11 2007, 11:52 AM, said:

It looks like the success of 3♣ and 3♦ come down to the ♦10 and the ♣9.
This is about as thin as you can cut it.

By the way, if pard opts for 3♥ instead of pass, let the doublin' begin.

You know partner isn't bidding 3♥, he is passing the double all day. Also, doesn't the dummy have at least as much a double of 3♦ (knowing they are on his right) than 3♥ (knowing they are on both sides of him)? I would double neither, but the doubles seem equally likely.


True if his clubs were K5432 or so they would make, but if they are KT98x we would have our bloodbath. As it is, I will take my 200 with pride

[Joe de Balliol]

At my table the auction was
3C 3D NB 3N
NB NB X   NB
NB 4C X   NB
NB 4D X   4H
NB NB X  AP

This went for 500 :/