[the_dude]

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IMPS, east will bid 2♠ given the opportunity. Can you stay out of game? If not .. what's your auction to get to 4H? (the only game with a chance)

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Bonus question .. can North get away with a creative negative double? How do you take this auction?

1H (1S) X (2S)
4C P 4D?

does 4D show this hand .. or is it some sort of slam try?

[JLOGIC]

If north doubled then why would south bid 4C? 1534 is about the easiest X of 2S ever.

[Siegmund]

I was going to suggest 1H (1s) x (2s) 3c p 3d, playing good/bad so that 3c shows better than a minimum opener from south. Having opener reopen with a double as justin suggests works fine too.

"Get away with" a "creative" negative double? It was the textbook way to show a long suit too weak to bid naturally at the 2-level immediately, at least if you learned negative doubles in the pre-Internet age... if that's what south understands 3D to show, he should have no trouble avoiding 3NT or 5D.