[Fluffy]

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Opponents are:
ROVYSHYN Oleg
SHUKHMEYSTER Borys

[Jinksy]

How weak is weak, and what lead (if any) would X ask for?

[Fluffy]

6-11 is the agreement but non vul at first....

double would not ask for any specific lead.

[gszes]

Partners range is quite wide and the distribution will quickly become an open book for declarer. Anything other than pass is just a WAG and who knows maybe there is a 4s bid forthcoming and I know I would be a ton happier defending that than 3n. I might even x 4s with my probable 3 defensive tricks and a bidding partner.

[ahydra]

Tempting though it is, again it just doesn't feel like I quite have enough to double. I'll pass. They may yet land in 4S

ahydra

[rmnka447]

I'm passing. As ahydra says, they could yet end up in 4 ♠. Also, it seems like partner probably has the rounded suits so 3 NT may not be a piece of cake.

[rhm]

Double

Not so much because you can guarantee a set, but because opponents are guessing as well and suits are not breaking well for them.
This could be a good investment.

Rainer Herrmann

[Cyberyeti]

ahydra, on 2016-June-28, 15:59, said:

Tempting though it is, again it just doesn't feel like I quite have enough to double. I'll pass. They may yet land in 4S

ahydra

Do you not feel a confident X is MORE likely to push them to 4♠ ?

[wank]

yeah i'd smack this. bad breaks and so on. also might help partner with his lead to know they're in a marginal contract.

[Phil]

I'd double if only to get the right lead.

[WesleyC]

Pass would be absolutely automatic in my partnerships. You'd need very unusual 1st Seat NIL preempting agreements to consider anything else.

[cherdano]

Think you have to double this one.
Great series of posts, Fluffy!

[Fluffy]

http://www.eurobridg...rd=001.11..1210

Spoiler

This could had been a really funny one, at the other table they had combined disaster where a missunderstanding aobut minimum vs encouraging was followed by bad judgement and they reached 6NT X, for -800. Curiously, if declarer was a bit more awake he would had got away for -500 only after a "bad" defence.

At our table we didn't double, but we defended better, a low club was led, and declarer erred playing the King from dummy, this allowed me to unblock ♣J, and now we had 7 easy tricks, had I doubled maybe we could had tied this board at -500

The contract is makeable ducking the first trick around, tough to find on the bidding, but perhaps a double makes it possible. What is more likelly is that double brings +300 in 4♠X after a diamond lead.