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   |Dealer: N          ===North========     Brd# 170257 |
   |Declarer: E        > BartonFinchley     Scoring: MP |
   |Vulnerable: None   S: QJ753                         |
   |Contract: 5H Dbl   H: 9                             |
   |Result: Down 2     D:                               |
   |Score: 300         C: 9876532                       |
   |===West=========                   ===East========= |
   |> spockelope       .----------.    > Buddha         |
   |S: 64              |          |    S: 82            |
   |H: AJT62           |          |    H: KQ53          |
   |D: KT7             |          |    D: Q6542         |
   |C: AKQ             .----------.    C: J4            |
   |                                                    |
   |                   ===South========                 |
   |                   > marguerite                     |
   |                   S: AKT9                          |
   |                   H: 874                           |
   |                   D: AJ983                         |
   |                   C: T                             |
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West North East South
      Pass Pass 1D
Dbl   3C!   3H    4D
4H    4S    Pass Pass
5H    Pass Pass Dbl
Pass Pass Pass

west either dbled or bid 1H. All other norths bid 1S (forcing). I was the only one to bid 3c (weak).

Comment on the rest of the auction if you like but my interest is in my first bid.

300 was about ave many played in 4S dbled with ot's

Why are you giving up on the spade suit so soon? Over the double I would bid 1S in order to keep the bidding low. Bidding 3C on 7 small clubs makes me think that you were ready to puke. (Did you?)

There was some sort of misunderstanding later in the auction. I didnt call west's dbl a zone dbi because with 17 it's close to a dbl and correct to hearts.

I thought my bid was perfect 3c shows a bad hand then when I later bid spds it would be clear i had a distributional freak.

BTW I'm not suggesting pard did anything wrong, I just found it odd that about 19 out of 20 bid a forcing 1s rather than a weak 3c. Even over 1H I would be reluctant to bid 1S.

Alan wondered about South's 4D rebid and so did I.

If you play Fit-Showing-Jumps ( FSJ), that is what 3C-jump would be.

Back in 2002, IanD made these comments:

a) In competition (including over a DBL ) and

b) as a passed hand .

He went on to say from experience:

"Actually the bid comes up more often over a minor suit opening ! !, and, again as you suggested, this shows at least a 5 card suit with at least 4 card support for the minor. "

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