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Nebulous double? or ... what's the point of a support double?

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Posted 2013-October-23, 15:00

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So, I am not particularly proud of my pass of the final double. In my defence, I had already shown my 3 card ♥ support, I had a control-rich flat hand, the double was non-forcing and (apparently) showed at least 2 enemy trumps (2 more than actually held).

So tell me: In a real life game, if you have 6 cards in a suit in which you have so far only promised 4, and partner has shown 3 card support, and you have a void in the opponent's trumps, and you have 4 card support for partner's opened suit, which may be only 3 card suit but if less than 5 card C suit then partner will have fewer than 4 in the opponents' Diamond trumps, then given all that, would you consider making a non-forcing double of 3D, that shows at least two trumps in which you are void? Or perhaps the double is forcing?
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