Posted 2021-July-11, 16:39
The east hand has some value in a 9-card fit. The only way to find that fit is to negative double. This is not as crazy as it seems. Pard would have opened 1C 33 or 44 in the minors so is likely to hold no more than 3 clubs, meaning the opponents most likely have at least an 8-card fit. We should have a fit.
But it is not guaranteed - not a 9-card fit, for sure. So really it is risk/reward. Anything other than a 9-card fit doesn't look good. It will be really bad if partner rebids diamonds, which is also quite possible.
If my club Q were with my spades I would double. As it is, I pass.
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I've just been reading N.Timm's excellent new edition of 2/1.
Hand evaluation consumes a large part of it.
This hand was mismangled by most of the EW pairs - luckily we were NS.
What would you do as East?