[H_KARLUK]

Scoring: MP

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PASS  PASS  1♣  3♦
DBL   PASS   ?

[pclayton]

4♠ is plenty. My ♦K is probably worthless, so I'm not going to get that excited about this hand. How high do I want to be opposite Kxxx AKxx xx xxx?

If pard doesn't have spades, we should have a club fit.

[peachy]

4S, although it may go down:(

[P_Marlowe]

4S.

Partner is a passed hand, and we are semi bal..

Besides I hate it, when partner makes a cue,
when I have no idea, what suit is intended as
trumps and we are on the 4 level.

Keep it simple.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[awm]

I've got the one dissenting vote for 3NT.

It seems like we have plenty of values, and we are fairly likely to get a diamond lead against 3NT into the king. We can than cash out our clubs and some tricks from partner's hand.

While it is true that there are hands where 4♠ makes more tricks than 3NT, there are other considerations here. The 3♦ preempt implies that we may be getting lousy breaks (often a problem in 4♠, less so in 3NT). We are likely to get a diamond lead away from the ace against 3NT whereas we are unlikely to see that lead against spades. Our clubs provide a lot of fast tricks, implying that we may not need to lose the lead (losing the lead is a big problem in 3NT after our sole diamond stopper is removed, not as big a problem in spades). And there is a possibility (however small) that partner has only three spades. Sure, we should have a club fit then, but I don't put much faith in making 5♣. For example: ♠Kxx ♥AQxx ♦xx ♣Jxxx is a hand where I think many would negative double and 3NT seems by far the best game.

[jdonn]

Obviously 4♠. I wouldn't be shocked to miss a slam but I'm not good enough to look for it. I wouldn't be shocked to go down either.