Furlan, on Jul 12 2010, 03:23 PM, said:
First X showed exactly 4 spades.
This is only part of the useful information.
We need to know what the second double means.
Justin has said that it is not penalties and that surely is expert standard. Nevertheless there are some partnerships that play takeout style doubles (takeout, negative, responsive etc) to some lower level.
The bottom line is we need to know what partner means by the double of 4
♥ in order to make a sensible bid now.
1♣ (1♥) X (4♥)
X (Pa) ??