[Rebound]

Scoring: IMP

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Our auction(NS): (p) - p - (p) - 1♦ - (X) - 1NT - (2♣) - ppp
Other table(our partners-EW): 1♣ - (p) - 1NT - (X) - p - (2♣) - ppp

This may strike you as a pretty boring looking partscore hand, but when played in a team game last night I noticed that the contract at both tables was 2♣, but in opposite directions. Since we beat it both times, we won 4 IMPS :-)

How often have you defended or played the same contract at both tables in a team game?

[luke warm]

several times, but usually 1nt... i can't recall the same 2 level partscore

[pclayton]

I've seen it once or twice. Usually a takeout double is involved for some odd reason.

[Walddk]

Rebound, on Apr 1 2005, 08:44 AM, said:

How often have you defended or played the same contract at both tables in a team game?

I have tried it 2 or 3 times over the years, but it actually happened recently on BBO vugraph in the exhibition match between Netherlands and Republic of Ireland.

3♣ just made for EW at one table.

3♣X by NS at the other table. No success. It went for 1700!

Roland

[mr1303]

Our opps had a muisunderstanding in defence to our strong club system.


Auction went:

1C (1NT) P (3S)
P (4C) P (4D)
X (4H) P (4S)
X


1NT was alerted as hearts and clubs, his partner thought it was spades and diamonds.

The other table it went:


2NT P 3C P
3S P 4S all pass

[Fluffy]

I've seen 2♥/♠ when the suit was 5431 or 5521 several times.

[EricK]

pclayton, on Apr 2 2005, 09:01 AM, said:

I've seen it once or twice. Usually a takeout double is involved for some odd reason.

If this hand is anything to go by, it is because people make take-out double on the wrong sort of hands.

Both pairs who ended up in 2♣ had used a take-out double on weak balanced hands. What were they hoping to achieve?!

Eric