delmo, on 2016-August-17, 02:08, said:
My decision was as follows.
Since N already showed 7+♥, and S, presumably, also 7+♠, I had 3♠, then my partner should be very short in ♠, and at the same time, he should be very long in both ♦ and ♣.
Since N already showed 7+♥, and S, presumably, also 7+♠, I had 3♠, then my partner should be very short in ♠, and at the same time, he should be very long in both ♦ and ♣.
Hi delmo, You applied some logic (3 level pre-empts are often 6 cards long these days though) but you missed the point.
Your first double asked for partners cooperation and when they didn't your 5♦ bid was flying solo. One disaster such as the opponents going down in game and/or extracting the max penalty and your partner has every reason to be VERY upset and definitely begin underbidding out of fear, trashing many future results.
I often quote Allan Graves from an old bidding contest: I don't mind a poorish result to maintain partnership bidding integrity.