[jocdelevat]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 -     Pass  1♣    Dbl
 Pass  1♥    Pass  Pass
 Pass  

of course me and pard play sayc and op open 1c

[bb79]

as south I'd bid 1nt, then north bids 3nt ...
but wait, west leads spade and I'd go down and lose more imps

I think south's dbl is wrong, not a huge hand and don't have enough support for spades. north's response to dbl is wrong too, should bid 2♥ with 11 hcp. pass of 1♥ is correct.

[han]

Agree with 1NT, my second choice would be 1♦, I would never double. Also agree that north has a 2H bid.

[P_Marlowe]

South should make a 1 NT overcall,
what does he want to achieve with
the t/o?
One should always try to choose the most
descriptive bid, and this is 1 NT in this case,
you have the points, the shape and the
stopper, ... perfect.

After the t/o South was endplayed.

Of course North could have rescued partner,
by bidding 2H or 3H, with his 1H reponse he
played "a death man", but you should not rely
on partner to rescue you, if you can do it on
your own.


With kind regards
Marlowe

[Codo]

The double was not good. 1. Choice 1 NT . 2 Choice 1 Diamond , no third choice.
But make it QJx, Axx,Qxxxx,AK and double is a possibility, so there is some value in this bid.

But not even in north america, where 1 Heart as a response to a double can be quite strong, this is a 1 Heart bid. 1 Heart is simply wrong. 100%. This is no question of judgement or system, it is wrong.

The pass of 1 HEart depends on the system, I had passed opposite an european partner with a second of hesitation.

[Codo]

Jlall, on Mar 5 2008, 12:55 AM, said:

Codo, on Mar 4 2008, 10:53 AM, said:

But not even in north america, where 1 Heart as a response to a double can be quite strong...

Really? I didn't know this...

Maybe you are getting old and your memory isn´t as good as it was in your younger years?

We had the discussion that Americans tend to bid 1 Heart on some hands up to 10 HCPs while the european school is to bid 1 Heart just up to 7 HCPS and jump with more.

You will find this in the BBO archives for sure. We discussed it in deepth in 2007.

Or is it my memory which failed? Surely always possible, but maybe not this time.