[whereagles]

PhantomSac, on 2014-October-17, 16:42, said:

I agree with you, so why are you balancing on this hand with horrible shape? Your partner is known to have 4-5 hearts and 2-3 spades. They may or may not have a fit and we will often not have a fit. It's not like we have a shapely monster we are 3244. We also have excellent defensive values and pretty bad offensive values. On top of that even with a 4-4 fit we are pretty likely to get a 4-1 break

Because my instinct tells me opps are going to make this. Maybe holding them to 8 tricks will be a good MP score, but my experience is it's won't. Agree I can easily be wrong in practice, but I won't fight my instincts and so, at these colours, think I'll give it one last try to keep destiny in my own hands.

Final note: obviously, wouldn't even dream to do if 2♠ only guarantees 4 cards. Nor vulnerable. At teams the profit for grabs is probably also too small for the risk.

[eagles123]

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2sX = zero matchpoints

I should have passed. Oh well.


Eagles

[paulg]

eagles123, on 2014-October-18, 02:16, said:

I should have passed. Oh well.

Although the weight of opinion is for pass, it was not unanimous. However I expect that few would have passed your double as West and that is the real cause of the result.

[Jinksy]

Y, W's X is atrocious. Looks like 3♣ would be about -1 undoubled. Time to put on my results merchant glasses

(ETA - having said that, if W is capable of passing that X, he's capable of passing me out in 2N, which looks less pretty)