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Having passed at your first chance, the logical choice might be to continue in that vein. This will lose you 4 IMPs. If you decided to double as a kind of "balance", then you would flatten the board because partner, bless him, bids 4. This assumes, of course, that partner reads the double of 4 as take-out (double of 3 was t-o). East-West were regular partners, both Internationals, and yet one thought double would have been for take-out and the other thought for penalties.
If, however, you decided to bid 5 - as my friend did - then minus 1100 and 12 IMPs is the price to pay.

Hands like this should give us all heart - even experts occasionally get it wrong big time, but is vital to discuss these competitive situations with your regular partner.
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