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What does this double mean and what's your bid?

#1 User is offline   SimonFa 

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Posted 2012-January-14, 13:05

All White, MPs, partner deals.

P (1H) P (1S)
P (1NT) P (P)
X (P) ?

♠83
♥T86
♦QJ8
♣KJ432

After two passes this looked to me like:

"We can't let them buy this auction this cheaply, do something intelligent, partner."

Sitting the double didn't look very intelligent so 2C it was.

They eventually made 2NT when partner didn't say anything else.

Agree with reasoning and bid? If not what's your take?

Thanks in advance,

Simon

PS Just for interest partner's hand:

Spoiler


EDIT Bidding fixed

This post has been edited by SimonFa: 2012-January-14, 13:31

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Posted 2012-January-14, 13:13

Bidding diagram needs work. Or needs to be moved to Laws section; one or the other. Righty does get to double his partner's response.
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Posted 2012-January-14, 13:26

The 1H bidder ( Opener ) cannot DBL partner's 1S response .
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Posted 2012-January-14, 13:32

View Postaguahombre, on 2012-January-14, 13:13, said:

Bidding diagram needs work. Or needs to be moved to Laws section; one or the other. Righty does get to double his partner's response.



View PostTWO4BRIDGE, on 2012-January-14, 13:26, said:

The 1H bidder ( Opener ) cannot DBL partner's 1S response .


Bidding fixed.
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Posted 2012-January-14, 13:46

I hate these kinds of doubles. Especially being a passed hand to begin with, what kind of hand can he have that couldn't act on the previous round but must act now? Anyway. 2♣ is a good bid by you. double was almost certainly a bad call by your partner.
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Posted 2012-January-14, 15:30

I think your reasoning and your 2♣ bid were fine.
But, I would have expected partner to have had at least 4-4 in the minors for his balancing DBL ( surely it wasn't for penalty as a passed hand ) .
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