Comeuppance


J 8 4 2
6 5
K J 8 6 3
K 4
Q 9 7 5 3 10
J 10 9 4 3 K 2
4 2 Q 10 7 5
10 J 9 8 7 3 2
A K 6
A Q 8 7
A 9
A Q 6 5 Opening lead: 10 of clubs

SouthWestNorthEast
2 Pass 2 * Pass
2 NT* Pass 3 * Dbl
Redbl All pass * Alerted

With Example 12 I defended a redouble of a doubled Stayman 2 club bid, on the ground that sometimes an opponent will thoughtlessly double such a bid, perhaps to show an ace, since everybody knows that's not the club bidder's real suit, and find the opponents accept the double and indeed redouble and can make say, 8 tricks on their "not real" suit, not by trump dominance, to be sure, though with a few top trump winners, but by an overwhelming predominance in hcp's to make up for an exiguous trump holding. The redoubler is only suggesting, of course and would be trusting his partner to take them out of the redouble with a yukky low doubleton or singleton. It was only a week after editing that hand that I came across such a situation in the hand given above.
North-South didn't have as many trump as the opponents and indeed got what would normally be a horrendous 6-1 split. But it wasn't so horrendous here, for it induced an unthinking East to double with his six-card holding, though with a far more exiguous hcp holding than the opposition has clubs.
East has all of 6 hcp's and his partner has said nothing. And beyond that, N-S have advertised a powerful holding. East must also reflect that they're not in a slam bid, that indeed, it's only the 3 level and the opponents can afford to lose four tricks and by sheer power, bully their way to 9 tricks. It was a very risky double, allowing the redouble with such a skimpy point count against opponents with a juggernaut, an advertised juggernaut, for heaven's sake. I would advise against a careless doubling of suits you simply don't think the opponents will treat as their "real" suit. Not unless you have the strong hcp holding and would welcome a redouble.
To what purpose does East double? He doesn't have top clubs and doesn't need to tell his partner about that holding. Further, he's challenging the strong pair here, strong in hcp's. The guy opened 2 club, for heaven's sake. Or was it possible that East both thought the opponents would stay there and that his holding would beat that contract? Hard to say.
Declarer looks to have 9 top tricks with two spades, two hearts (on a finesse), two diamonds and three clubs -- except that he doesn't have two top spade tricks since East can ruff the second round. This declarer made up for that lost trick, however, by ruffing the third round of diamonds with the 6, giving his side four club winners to East's three. Please note that this double comes from a weak holding, and indeed, the E-W pair holds all of 9 hcp's! They just couldn't overcome that disparity in hcp's even with 6-1 holding in their trump suit. But doubles coming from the stronger side, hence the redouble from the weaker, isn't quite so likely to turn out well for the redoubler, e.g. Example 11