This auction happened at the table of my teammates and south (a fine player of our team who did already play for Belgium internationaly) did pass. At first sight, when looking at the hands diagrams I thought I would have bid 3♥ with this in a second ! :) I would not have thought to dbl since my partner would likely take it as penalty. I asked him why he passed and he basically said something similar to what Phil did. Anyway, I was interested to know your views on this... Thanks all for the responses ! Post mortem : At our table I did bid 4♦ with AK109xxx. 4♥ was played at both tables going down at ours so we got a plus on this board.