[sceptic]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 -     -     -     2♠!
 Pass  4♠    Pass  Pass
 Dbl   Pass  5♦    Dbl
 5♥    Dbl   Pass  Pass
 6♦    Pass  6♥    Dbl
 RDbl  Pass  Pass  Pass
 

Ok any idea where we went wrong, this is possibly the worse result I ever had

[sceptic]

Question 2 can you guess how many we went down by?

The 2 spades was alerted as strong

[joker_gib]

Well, you don't even have a t/o dbl on a 1♠ opening so it is pretty dangerous to dbl at the 4th level, isn't it

By the way, your dbl can only be penalty and you don't have it !

[joker_gib]

I would add that it would be good to change your partner if he removes those kind of double

[Gerben47]

Anyway, what went wrong:
After not having doubled 2♠ for takeout west's double must be interpreted as a penalty double so east should pass it. In fact 4♠ can be defeated if east returns a club rather than a diamond (this is hard!).
Nevertheless, west should not have doubled 4♠. Also correcting 5♥ to 6♦ does not seem very smart. Did he really think the doubling would stop?

My guess is down 7. Am I right?

[Free]

West's Dbl is penalty (but he doesn't hold a penalty hand)! East has an Ace, so he should pass for sure. So West started the problems, and East made them worse, and West finished them with his ridiculous RDbl...

[Flame]

well both made lots of mistakes
D=mistake
5D= mistake
5H= mistake
6D/6H=hard to judge those
redouble= come one are you serious
Id say west mistakes were more silly, east's are understandable.

[sceptic]

oh well, I will chalk that one up to stupidity for bidding 5 diamonds ...sigh, this game does my head in on occasions LOL

[pclayton]

I don't find a lot of humor in the whole matter myself. There are funny bridge hands; this one is more pathetic than anything else.

So where do you want to start? 2♠, whether it be weak strong or Acol (looks like the latter to me) just looks like one of those random bids you see online. Same with 4♠, although NS are clearly on the same page. Undisturbed, this is the normal contract, probably down but makes on a misdefense.

The double of 4♠, is well, odd. Maybe you feel they are stealing from you, maybe pard hitched over 4♠; it doesn't matter. Just pass.

The pull to 5♦ is ill judged too. 5♥ is too strange for words, as is 6♦. And the redouble?

On behalf of the BBO community, I'd like to thank you for creating another wild, non-field result. I'm guessing the other pairs that played 4♠ -1 on sensible defense are all probably getting 3 or 4 IMPs, instead of losing 2.

Who cares how many you went down?

[sceptic]

-5200 down and 24 imps lost, can anyone beat that LOL

[EricK]

Terrible bidding all round!

South is a trick or so short of a 2♠ opening.

North should raise to 3♠ (it is generally wrong to raise straight to game with an Ace) so the best contract of 3NT is reached.

West has no reason to double 4♠ (he has only 2 certain tricks).

East shouldn't take out the penalty double with an Ace. He certainly shouldn't sacrifice at this vulnerability unless he thinks there is a chance of only being one off.

West's 5♥ was ill thought out if he planned to revert to 6♦

West's 6♦ is ridiculous once 5♦ has been doubled for penalties.

West's redouble is ... Help! I've run out of non-insulting adjectives.

Eric

[hotShot]

Playing an online tourney one has to take a risk once in a while to get an extra IMP or two. Dbl is clearly penalty, but West is a little weak, but
Opps jump to 4 ♠ could be a weak game try. The risk is minimal opps get 590 instead of 420. not too expencive, but when they fall, we get a few extra against those playing 3♠ or falling in 4 without dbl.

West dbl is a optimistic taktical bid.
Now East takes it as takeout, ***** happens.....
5♥ / 6♦ / 6♥ i won't say what i think of these bids, so Ben won't have to remove my comment.
redbl deserves an report to abuse@...., this is clearly punishing partner and ruin everybody elses score.

[luke warm]

yes, as most have said the double of 4s should be for penalty... whew what a mess... a general rule to remember is, if someone has a chance to double a suit for takeout and doesn't, then later doubles that same suit, it's for penalties... i'm sure there are exceptions, but i don't know what they are

[Fluffy]

I don't think 4♠ is beateable, first of all you won't normally lead a ♦ with a trump trick.