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Posted 2006-February-24, 05:11

What I am wondering: how strong a balanced hand do you need to double 4♠? Let's assume a trump holding like this KTx, which most likely will be useless in offense.

Above I claimed "you should be disciplined and pass 4♠ with the North hand" (repeated for convenience: ♠KTx ♥AQx ♦K98x ♣AKx). That seems like a huge overbid, if partner takes out with a useful distributional hand, you are expecting to make.
Recently I had a good balanced 16-count, behind a 3rd seat white-vs-red 4♠ opener and doubled, since not doubling seemed riskier than doubling. But if partner had taken out, I would have felt bad. (He left it in, and we got 500.) And in other positions, I might have passed.

What's your balanced borderline hand for this "takeout" double?

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