[gnasher]

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You're 2353 without any black-suit honours. What are the minimum red-suit honour holdings that you'd need to raise?

[Tcyk]

The second double confuses me. If partner had a big hand with ♥s he would have bid them instead of the double. Why the second double? My guess is that the ♥ suit is weak but there are a lot of scattered values. Doubler needs ♥ honors and not much else to make game. You certainly have less than 8 HCP because you passed 1♠. With 2♥ honors, I would bid 4♥. I would probably forget to look at my ♦s unless I had the ace but then my hand would be too strong for the initial pass over 1♠.

Oh my, there is another possible explanation. He is making a game try in ♥s but is willing to play to ♦s. If I don't have ♥ support, I must retreat to 4♦. With poor ♥s and good ♦s, I must bid 4♦. If I pass with that hand, I will never hear the end of it.

[rhm]

Unless holding a yarborough, raise. Any honor in the red suit, particularly in ♥, is enough.
Partner has given you a chance to stop below game, because he does not know whether a fit exists on this sequence.
Partner either has 5 good ♥ in a strong distributional hand or six mediocre ♥. With better ♥ he would have bid 3♥ last time.
This assumes partner to be an expert. Lesser ones often overbid with strong hands.

Rainer Herrmann

[dake50]

4H if H:Kxx
if H:xxx +D:KJxxx
if H:Qxx +D:Kxxxx
if H:Qxx +D:QJxxx

[mfa1010]

A red queen is enough.

[Fluffy]

I think doubleton spade will provide an entry, I think all blank cards might be enough with 3 card support. I would raise with a red queen for sure as michael suggested, with less than that its close and I don't think I'd do the same all the time.

If I played any form of 2♦ thansfer to hearts in competition after partner doubles I would pass this thing with much more afraid of a missunderstanding.

[FrancesHinden]

I don't understand the auction so far. What did partner's second double mean?

[gnasher]

Double was not explicitly discussed, but I think it just shows a good hand that isn't suitable for any other action - the equivalent of doubling and then cue-bidding, except that double conserves space. I don't think that it either promises or denies four spades.

[y66]

DK or HQ for me.

[jogs]

gnasher, on 2011-March-12, 12:17, said:

Double was not explicitly discussed, but I think it just shows a good hand that isn't suitable for any other action - the equivalent of doubling and then cue-bidding, except that double conserves space. I don't think that it either promises or denies four spades.

I'm with Frances, with no discussion there's no such auction. I'm wouldn't raise to game regardless of hand.

[MrAce]

jogs, on 2011-March-12, 18:46, said:

I'm with Frances, with no discussion there's no such auction. I'm wouldn't raise to game regardless of hand.

L O L

[FrancesHinden]

gnasher, on 2011-March-12, 12:17, said:

Double was not explicitly discussed, but I think it just shows a good hand that isn't suitable for any other action - the equivalent of doubling and then cue-bidding, except that double conserves space. I don't think that it either promises or denies four spades.

OK, so partner's got some 5332 with 5 hearts and a load of HCP. A hand he thought too strong to bid 2H over 1S. He could be 2=5=2=4 except that the opponents seem to have only 8 spades.
I don't think minor diamond honours are particularly interesting. I would want something slightly more than just the king of hearts, but black suit honours could also be useful.

[gnasher]

Partner had xxx AKxxx AKQx A. How should he have bid his hand?

[FrancesHinden]

Well, if he believes the opponents then they have an 8-card spade fit and partner has a doubleton spade. That means game is playable opposite a 0-count (with 3 hearts, play in hearts, with 2 hearts opposite you have (some) play for 5D even opposite a 2=2=4=5).

As I can't double 1S on this hand (I play it as penalties) I would have bid 2C on the previous round.

[gnasher]

FrancesHinden, on 2011-March-14, 16:38, said:

Well, if he believes the opponents then they have an 8-card spade fit and partner has a doubleton spade. That means game is playable opposite a 0-count (with 3 hearts, play in hearts, with 2 hearts opposite you have (some) play for 5D even opposite a 2=2=4=5).

Have the opponents shown an eight-card spade fit? Opener passed 1♠ in a live auction, then competed with 2♠ on the next round. That doesn't sound like primary support.

Responder knew he was probably facing three-card support. With a five-card suit himself, he might have bid 2♠ after the double of 1♠.

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As I can't double 1S on this hand (I play it as penalties) I would have bid 2C on the previous round.

OK, but you'd have ended up in the same situation: it would have gone pass-2♦-2♠. What would you have done now?

[rhm]

gnasher, on 2011-March-14, 03:29, said:

Partner had xxx AKxxx AKQx A. How should he have bid his hand?

I think partner bid well.

Rainer Herrmann

[han]

I also think partner bid well.