[karlson]

Your opponents are reasonably strong juniors.

Righty opens 1s in third seat, red/red at matchpoints. You double, lefty bids 3s, and you end up being declarer.

You're surprised to find that between you and dummy you have 8 spades, including the AQJT. How are the opponents' spades split?

[han]

Define reasonably strong, I want names.

I suspect righty has 2 small spades and lefty king third since it wouldn't be an interesting question if righty had a stiff (since then LHO might have a normal 3S bid). By the way, did you end up declaring 4S?

[awm]

I think a 1♠ psyche is a lot more likely than a psychic raise. I'd guess that opener has a small singleton or doubleton and LHO has Kxx(x).

[pclayton]

karlson, on Sep 18 2008, 10:04 AM, said:

Your opponents are reasonably strong juniors.

Righty opens 1s in third seat, red/red at matchpoints. You double, lefty bids 3s, and you end up being declarer.

You're surprised to find that between you and dummy you have 8 spades, including the AQJT. How are the opponents' spades split?

If its Paca the weak jump raise was made on a void.

He's the only one I know capable of this.

[kfay]

No.

I suspect ThreeNoBob is a character in this story.

Spades are 4-1 with lefty, obviously.

[jdonn]

pclayton, on Sep 18 2008, 01:14 PM, said:

karlson, on Sep 18 2008, 10:04 AM, said:

Your opponents are reasonably strong juniors.

Righty opens 1s in third seat, red/red at matchpoints. You double, lefty bids 3s, and you end up being declarer.

You're surprised to find that between you and dummy you have 8 spades, including the AQJT. How are the opponents' spades split?

If its Paca the weak jump raise was made on a void.

He's the only one I know capable of this.

One of my all time favorite hands was I made a lead directing double of an artificial diamond bid with a singleton (for reasons I completely can not remember), and LHO ended up declaring 4♥. Justin was on lead with KQJxxx of diamonds and led the queen!, and declarer ducked with Axxx in dummy and xx in hand, got his ace ruffed out on the next round, and went down.

[gwnn]

this had happened to me before and I misplayed and of course opener had two and the raise was honest.

[karlson]

I was lefty, and led a spade, so 0-5 was out. I was very surprised when declarer, a decent player, very confidently played for them to be 1-4 (3s on a stiff) and not 4-1.

I don't think this is actually a difficult problem.

Partner demanded anonymity, sorry.

[han]

You called yourself reasonably strong Victor?

[kfay]

He has been going to the gym lately.