MrAce, on 2018-February-06, 17:31, said:
Having already lied about the values, about the suit quality now we are running after forcing pass over 4♥ huh?
Well, we have had some discussions about auctions like
(pass)-pass-(3
♦)-x
(5
♦)-?
and the consensus is that pass is forcing because opps are obviously sacrificing when they bid game after having preempted opposite a passed hand.
Now this may not apply here if 2
♥ was intermediate, and of course playing this auction as FP is vulnerable to exploytation as RHO could have bid 2
♥ on a very heavy hand in order to put us in an FP.
But anyway, of course a 2
♠ bid that can be as weak as this doesn't in itself put us in an FP. And as said I wouldn't have assumed this was an FP myself. Just that I don't think it would be a crazy agreement to have.
Besides, it is club-level matchpoints, so if opps can bid and make game on less than 25 HCPs we get a bottom anyway so we might as well double them
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