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hate double. it's presumptuous to hit the panic button and risk an action when they will often only have 8 clubs in which case we'll be fine defending or they might also have done themselves out of a higher scoring NT contract.
partner knows as well as we do that it's right to bid aggressively at these colours/scoring, so he could have overcalled a reasonable 4 card suit or made an off-shape take out double.
how bad is double? disaster postmortem
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Posted 2013-April-20, 19:31
You make a bad bid and get to a badly breaking contract you get doubled, I don't care if you are Garozzo.
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Posted 2013-April-21, 05:19
Partner has a bag of spanners (he passed over 1♣), righty has a bag of spanners (he bid 3♣), I have a bag of spanners (I know that because I am looking at it). But they have a big fit, right?
Not necessarily. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest there is a very high likelihood that lefty is 18-19 balanced. All the signs point to it. On a bad day, he is 4432 and righty is 2245. And don't tell me people don't bid 3♣ on that - maybe they shouldn't but in practice they often do.
On a good day, lefty has a max weak no trump and we escape for one off against their one off. I don't think there is much chance at all that lefty has a natural club given the action so far. When he does, he is strong given partner passed with a stiff or void club, so our double is the equivalent of breaking wind.
Not necessarily. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest there is a very high likelihood that lefty is 18-19 balanced. All the signs point to it. On a bad day, he is 4432 and righty is 2245. And don't tell me people don't bid 3♣ on that - maybe they shouldn't but in practice they often do.
On a good day, lefty has a max weak no trump and we escape for one off against their one off. I don't think there is much chance at all that lefty has a natural club given the action so far. When he does, he is strong given partner passed with a stiff or void club, so our double is the equivalent of breaking wind.
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Posted 2013-April-21, 12:14
Poty for gratuitous use of the phrase "bag of spanners" and comparison of dbl and breaking wind.
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Posted 2013-April-22, 01:49
I have to admit that the last time I saw this auction RHO had a semi-balanced hand with 5 clubs and LHO had 4=4=3=2. Club game so not much point in mentioning the lack of alert.
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Posted 2013-April-22, 01:56
Yo double so bad when she wears an X jacket helicopters try to land on her.
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Posted 2013-April-22, 06:45
JLOGIC, on 2013-April-20, 12:19, said:
I would always X
Really? Now I am confused, this was looking unanimous.
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Posted 2013-April-24, 04:51
Just like CGibson, i would not even consider it.
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