Going nil when your partner goes nil

[Holdenbj]

I wonder when you guys think it is appropriate to bid nil if your partner has bid nil. I can only see it as a last ditch move if your opponents have bid like 11 or 12 between them.

It happened to me today (my partner bid nil after I did) and I became very frustrated with my partner. I feel like I had a very solid nil and would have made it, but with no teammate helping me , my nil went down (on a 6C). I will show you our hands.

ME

S:3
H:2,4,8,9,10,K
C:6,J
D:3,4,10,A

PARTNER

S:2,6,8
H:6
C:5,7,K
D:2,5,6,7,8,J

Admittedly, I wasn't loving my diamonds for a nil hand but life always has risks. As it turns out, my partner could have easily covered my hand. Since he had 6 Ds the opponents could never lead to my A. It is possible he might eventually be forced to lead into a 4th diamond trick, but his hand is pretty weak, so he is likely only leading a couple of times.

I may be missing something so I thought I would see what other people think

By the way, the bidding went-

ME: nil
WEST: nil
Partner: nil
EAST: 11

My opponent complained that he didn't think he could take a trick which seems completely foolish. His singleton H is worth at least 1, and his KC is probably going to be good. I think I would have bid 2 in his spot. The 2 could have gone down, but if it does that is only -20 and almost surely some bags for the opponents.

[sprockitz]

nil after nil is pretty silly, I agree. with no protection 1 of you is almost certainly going to be set. The 3 heart hand with the king certainly means they need to go at least 1 as a nil is likely set by that

[failedatquittingBGA3]

I think his nil would be valid and probably makeable- provided you didn’t go nil. He easily could have made either the Kc or trumping hearts. Also it looks like he actually has you covered pretty much guaranteed.

[All7Pangaea]

I've seen it work. I've also seen it miserably fail. Take a chance, have fun..

[Teddy and Mort]

Thats interesting. Tell us more keeter.