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Scoring: MP
The bidding goes:
S [space] [space]W [space] [space]N [space] [space]E P [space] (1H) [space]P [space](1Sp) ?
You have only 3 cards in opponents' suits, partner seems to be below opening strength, opps are likely to have a game but they haven't found a fit yet. You're too weak for a double, and don't want to mislead your partner, yet you desperately want to participate. So you bid 2NT. LHO insists on 3H, partner goes to 4C, passed to your LHO who doubles, and all pass.
Scoring: MP
A small heart is lead by East, partner takes it with the ace, cashes two spades to get rid of the heart, Di K, A, and gives to the opponents their 3 trump tricks. You score 510 for 89.66%.
It turned out that opps didn't have a game after all. There were many scores of 4Sp doubled -2 where NS get 62.07% and 4H doubled -3 for 82.76%. Best option for opponents was to pass 4C but who could blame them for their double? It was matchpoints after all.
I believe the moral here is twofold:
1. Get early in the bidding to steal opponents' bidding space.
2. Allow your partner to participate as well. One eager player wend to 4D doubled -2 and only got 3.45%. You have disbalanced minors but still not a single suited hand.