[kgr]

cherdano, on Jan 15 2006, 03:06 AM, said:

Ok, one more (yes I had league today): You hold ♠AK76 ♥6 ♦AQ763 ♣AJT and overcall (IMPs, all vulnerable) 1♦ after RHO opens 1♣. Your partner raises to 2♦ while the opponents stay silent.

What is your plan? How high will you go?

If you start with...

Spoiler

2♠ or 3♣, partner will reply 3♦.

Arend

I would have started with a DBL. Nobody else mentioned it, so it looks very wrong?

[mikeh]

kgr, on Jan 17 2006, 05:25 PM, said:

I would have started with a DBL. Nobody else mentioned it, so it looks very wrong?

For most people (some very good italians excluded) double shows support for all unbid suits, and certainly all unbid majors, or an extremely good hand able to bid its own suit over any foreseeable response. Here, the stiff ♥ makes double very bad, if you play this method (which I think 95% or more of good players play)

[kgr]

mikeh, on Jan 18 2006, 12:32 AM, said:

kgr, on Jan 17 2006, 05:25 PM, said:

I would have started with a DBL. Nobody else mentioned it, so it looks very wrong?

For most people (some very good italians excluded) double shows support for all unbid suits, and certainly all unbid majors, or an extremely good hand able to bid its own suit over any foreseeable response. Here, the stiff ♥ makes double very bad, if you play this method (which I think 95% or more of good players play)

Thanks for the answer Mike.
Are only Italians doubling with this or is Italians the bridge-word for Europeans?
I still wonder if it is American style not to DBL or typical Italian to DBL.
I play with my partner that DBL and bidding a new suit shows 16+ and a 5-card suit. Not sure if I should bid 1NT or 2D after partner bids 1H.
If I follow with 1D then my partner will raise to 2D or 3D with support and 0 to 10 points. (certainly not vulnerable). So bidding 1D would make it more difficult then DBL first.
...probably we play too much MP's. (At the other hand I don't like it if opps preempt to 3-level and I have no clear idea about their strength, so maybe it has some advantages)

[han]

I think kgr is right that many European players double much more often than most North American players including this hand.

[mike777]

Hannie, on Jan 17 2006, 09:24 PM, said:

I think kgr is right that many European players double much more often than most North American players including this hand.

Not only double but win very often with this style, America asks how? .