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Psychic Penalty Double A Strange Beast

#1 User is offline   kenrexford 

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Posted 2011-October-14, 14:38

A humorous hand from last night...

Partner opened 2♦ Flannery (ugh!), white on red. With such a non-following of the 10-second pause that I could not grab the alert card before he bid, my RHO overcalled 1♠. While noting the alert, I also noted to RHO that his bid was insufficient. RHO now asked about 2♦ and was a tad concerned at this point. Out of fear, he corrected to 2♠ to avert any penalty.

I held ♠Q ♥KJxx ♦9xxx ♣AQxx and decided to make a psychic penalty double of 2♠.

This was passed around to RHO, who now felt the heat and pulled to 3♦. LHO seemed obviously disturbed by this, and so I doubled again. LHO corrected back to 3♠, passed to me.

If partner couldn't double 3♠ in this context, it sure seemed wrong to me also, so I went with 4♥, the sane option from scratch.

LHO persisted with 4♠, and partner again did not double, instead bidding 5♥.

Now, 5♥ is a curious bid, for many reasons. First, passing up a double of a red 4♠ is odd and suggests an odd holding. Partner had to be in somewhat of a daze, however, as I had made a penalty double of a red-on-white 2♠, obviously without much if anything in spades, and then myself refused to double 3♠, instead bidding a passive 4♥, followed by the insolent advance to 4♠!

This rated to be an interesting layout, for sure, and I was right, in that partner in fact had 4♠/6♥ and diverted from expected himself, which was actually expected in the context. Plus, he seemed likely to have a void in diamonds for this development, which was accurate. But, with that hand, why no 5♦ cue? His clubs sucked, also expected. His hand was ♠Kxxx ♥AQxxxx ♦-- ♣Jxx.

With good defense, we could have reaped 500 doubling 4♠, but 5♥ did make. Strangely, however, my two losers ended up being the club King and a club ruff! Weird to end up that way.
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Posted 2011-October-14, 15:35

My favorite flannery hand was when the opps opened 2♦ and it went pass - pass to me with

♠QJT9x, ♥AKQJTxx, ♦x, ♣x

I bid 3nt, pard had me covered in the minors but after ♠AK and another were led it was fun to claim 9 in the majors.
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Posted 2011-October-14, 16:05

brilliant. you got an average board against some bunnies. i'm sure you're very proud.
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Posted 2011-October-15, 01:13

 wank, on 2011-October-14, 16:05, said:

brilliant. you got an average board against some bunnies. i'm sure you're very proud.


Us Bunnies are tough to get averages against. Normally we give away tops.

Funny hand though.
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Posted 2011-October-15, 02:52

:lol:

Sounds like someone was justifiably done long live bunnies :rolleyes:
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Posted 2011-October-18, 02:04

I had a hard time to convince myself to continue reading after:

 kenrexford, on 2011-October-14, 14:38, said:

A humorous hand from last night...

Partner opened 2♦ Flannery


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