[RunemPard]

MPs - V/NV - You are sitting East...
Opponents are playing 4 card openings, standard...the bidding goes...
We had no special agreements as to the meaning of a direct 2♠...it would be considered natural or whatever he decided it would have been so I passed in tempo.

South(O1) - West(P) - North(O2) - East(Y)
1♠ ----------- P ----------- 1N ----------- ??

♠AKQT75
♥84
♦652
♣63

Continued...

Spoiler

If you chose to pass...You get a X from partner passed to you...what now?

Our results...

Spoiler

I chose to pass and partner followed with a double. After I bid 2♠, he replied the 2N I expected. I chose to follow with 3♠ and made due to defensive error. partner held the single J of ♠ with the opponents holding 4/2. 1Nx would have been at least 2 down. Passing 1Nx would have been taking a huge risk on a balancing TOX with no entry. But still, a very interesting hand to start the night with.

[ahydra]

pass and pass - sounds like I would have done well

Partner should guess you have a feckload of spades (or a good amount of strength) if you pass the double of 1NT, and hence should get off to the right lead.

ahydra

[kenrexford]

ahydra, on 2012-August-14, 09:20, said:

pass and pass - sounds like I would have done well

Partner should guess you have a feckload of spades (or a good amount of strength) if you pass the double of 1NT, and hence should get off to the right lead.

ahydra

My guess is that a spade lead is not ideal but rather a spade switch in time later. You don't want to cash out three spades before doing work elsewhere, and the lead probably kills the one and only entry to your hand prematurely.

[WellSpyder]

ahydra, on 2012-August-14, 09:20, said:

Partner should guess you have a feckload of spades (or a good amount of strength) if you pass the double of 1NT, and hence should get off to the right lead.

I try not to get my partners to guess when to lead out of turn...

[nigel_k]

I can understand why you thought playing 2♠ might be better than defending 1NT. But it was too much to hope that partner would let you play there if you bid 2♠ immediately over the double.

[RunemPard]

nigel_k, on 2012-August-14, 13:37, said:

I can understand why you thought playing 2♠ might be better than defending 1NT. But it was too much to hope that partner would let you play there if you bid 2♠ immediately over the double.

I agree...my main concern was them making 1NT. This was the same reason I ran from his 2NT.

I fully expected partner to avoid playing spades. I was expecting either a 3(433) opening hand or the more obvious 10-11 HCP with short spades.