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What do do when a take-out double gets redoubled |
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Opener opens one of a suit, next hand (overcaller) doubles and the next hand redoubles. This redouble is discussed in General Bridge Topics > When RHO doubles. What should advancer (overcaller's partner) bid, and what should overcaller bid if advancer and opener both pass? |
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The redouble has promised that opener's side has the balance of power; they will generally make the redoubled contract and they will seek to penalise you wherever you run. So the overcaller/advancer side need to find the best playable spot. |
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The basic guidelines are: - |
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Advancer's bid after RHO has redoubled |
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Advancer necessarily has a poor hand (opener is presumably 12+, doubler is presumably 11+ and re-doubler is 9 +) and so he has a maximum of 8 points. But, assuming that partner is minimum for his double then he is playable in the three unbid suits. |
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In general advancer should pass unless he has a 5 card suit, which he should bid. There are a two exceptions: - |
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If the opening was a minor and advancer has just one 4-card major, then bid it (pass with both 4-card majors). |
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If the opening was 1♥ then advancer should bid 1♠ with a four card ♠ suit. |
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Examples.
With all of these hands LHO opens 1♥, partner doubles and RHO redoubles |
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| Hand A |
Hand B |
Hand C |
Hand D |
Hand E |
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| ♠ |
7643 |
♠ |
764 |
♠ |
764 |
♠ |
76 |
♠ |
7643 |
| ♥ |
432 |
♥ |
432 |
♥ |
K765 |
♥ |
KJ108 |
♥ |
432 |
| ♦ |
A754 |
♦ |
A7654 |
♦ |
765 |
♦ |
Q54 |
♦ |
A7654 |
| ♣ |
8754 |
♣ |
65 |
♣ |
765 |
♣ |
J542 |
♣ |
5 |
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| Hand A: |
bid 1♠, partner presumably has a 4 card ♠ suit and you do not want him to bid a 5-card suit at the two level. If partner does not like ♠'s then he has a very big hand, which is unlikely in view of the redouble. |
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| Hand B: |
bid 2♦ |
| Hand C: |
pass, let partner pick the suit. Do not bid 1NT, that promises 6-9 points. |
| Hand D: |
bid 1NT. |
| Hand E: |
you have a choice (1♠ or 2♦ ). I would always bid 1♠ because it's a level lower and my partners usually have 4 ♠'s for a double of 1♥ (or a very big hand, unlikely in this scenario). |
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Opener’s rebid when partner has redoubled |
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Unless he has a very shapely hand opener nearly always passes. |
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Overcaller’s bid having doubled and heard a redouble from LHO |
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Assuming the redouble is passed back to the doubler, he needs to find the best playable contract. If he has a 5 card suit he should bid it, or else bid the cheapest 4 card suit. |
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Examples. In all of these examples you have doubled a 1♥ opening from RHO and LHO has redoubled and this is passes back to you. |
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| Hand F |
Hand G |
Hand H |
Hand J |
Hand K |
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| ♠ |
AJ43 |
♠ |
AK6 |
♠ |
AKQ765 |
♠ |
AKJ |
♠ |
AQJ |
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4 |
♥ |
4 |
♥ |
5 |
♥ |
KJ10 |
♥ |
4 |
| ♦ |
A754 |
♦ |
A7654 |
♦ |
AK4 |
♦ |
AJ4 |
♦ |
AJ75 |
| ♣ |
A754 |
♣ |
AQ64 |
♣ |
Q54 |
♣ |
K954 |
♣ |
AJ754 |
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| Hand F: |
bid 1♠, simple. |
| Hand G: |
bid 2♦ |
| Hand H: |
you had intended to bid 2♠ over a minimum response from partner, to show a hand too good for a 1♠ overcall. But now that LHO has shown a good hand, settle for 1♠. |
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| Hand J: |
you intended to bid No Trumps over partner's minimum response to show a |
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hand too good for an immediate 1NT overcall. The best bid now is 1NT – do not pass – it will be easier for you to make 7 tricks in No Trumps than in ♥'s although you are quite likely to make only 5 or 6 t rick s as partner is obviously totally bust. But going down in 1NT (even if it gets doubled) is much better then them making 1♥ redoubled. |
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bid 2♣. If partner had 4 ♠'s he would have bid them. |
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Under virtually no circumstances should doubler pass the redoubled contract. There are a couple of amusing cases of this happening in News-sheets 244 and 245. |
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