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phil_20686, on Nov 24 2009, 03:45 PM, said:

I think its clear to double on bd 2. You have a reasonable defensive hand, this could be trash stayman (esp if they dont play smolen), and even if not its hard to imagine that partner will pass this out wrongly, he can hardly expect you to have more, and if you play in 2sx in a 4-3 fit well thats just life, but sometimes they wont double.

I think we have an absolutely terrible defensive hand. We can neutralize none of 1NT-opener's honours and we have just about 0 tricks.
If it goes all pass to the X, I expect to concede a doubled partscore more than half the time (with partner being reasonable). Dummy will inevitably hit with something in trumps + side tops. What else? The perfect dummy for declarer.

[mich-b]

mich-b, on Nov 22 2009, 01:55 AM, said:

3 decisions from last weekend , all around the same theme :pass or compete.

Scoring: IMP

4♥-P-P-?

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Scoring: IMP

4♥-P-P-?

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Doble here is agreed as takeout. Would you?

I will be very happy if someone could run a simulaton for hand 1.

Thanks for all the responses.

For those who are interested, here is what actually happened:

1. South bid 4NT, pd had
Axxxxx
QTx
x
Qxx

East found a double, and though declarer could have escaped for down 1 , the result was -500.
4♥ , of course, would have been down a lot.

2. Partner's hand was :
Ax
JTxx
Jxxx
ATx

South passed, and 2♥ made easily (opener 3532).
5♦ is cold for our side.

3. South doubled for takeout, and was caught for 800 (better guessing could have resulted in 500 or maybe even 300).