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#1 User is offline   mohitz 

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Posted 2010-May-13, 11:50

1♠ - (2♥) - p - (2NT)
p - (3♣) - X

Obviously, responder has hearts. But what about clubs? Is this takeout-ish or penalty-ish?

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Posted 2010-May-13, 11:56

Hi:

Penalty.

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Posted 2010-May-13, 13:24

Yes penalty. Opener won't pull so you'd better have some clubs too.
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Posted 2010-May-13, 13:41

penalty but not a trump stack, so that partner is not barred from bidding. However, it would be a very odd hand on which he pulled, because he already rates to be short in hearts, so would need to have very long spades (at least 7) or surprisingly long diamonds to even think about pulling.

I wouldn't need more than 3 clubs to make this double...and I'm probably leading one of them.
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