Neeresh

Dbl! Simple over-calls with such freak hands can go without any raise.After the double if partner replies the short suit (♥in this case so bid 3♣, which will show 2 suited hand, other suit being ♠.

Though this hand could be bid in any system to reach game in ♥s, yet it requires a degree of partnership understanding and bidding style. Undoubtedly hands have a combine game point coverage. Yet the most important things is the shortage in spades opposite only ♠QJxxx (Almost no wastage). In my opinion this hand could easily be bid accurately in any system which either plays Multi 2D with 4441 (17-19 HCP)included or has the ability to show both majors min 5-4 (if 5-4 then ♠are 4 and ♥are 5) or 5-5. Here at our club in Varanasi (India) we play both and can show it either ways. 1. 1♣or 1♦---- 2♥ (shows 5-4 in majors, 7-9 hcps) . ---- 2♠ (shows 5-4 in majors, 10-11 hcps) While playing Multi 2D which includes a)either a weak 6 carder major or b)4441, 17-19 hcps or c)strong acol type hand in any minor the bidding goes; 1. 2♦(alerted) ----- 2♥(forced relay,alertable) 2NT (alerted, 4441) ----- 3♣(relay to show the short suit) 3♥short♠ ----- ? (Simply 4♥ or slam interest) I think this the tricky place where the responder has to calculate precisely whether explore slam or should be content with game only. If the opener has a hand like ♠x ♥KQxx ♦AKxx ♣AKxx the slam is on. With the given hand a lot of guess is to be made and responder should be content with game.

Though this hand could be bid in any system to reach game in ♥s, yet it requires a degree of partnership understanding and bidding style. Undoubtedly hands have a combine game point coverage. Yet the most important things is the shortage in spades opposite only ♠QJxxx (Almost no wastage). In my opinion this hand could easily be bid accurately in any system which either plays Multi 2D with 4441 (17-19 HCP)included or has the ability to show both majors min 5-4 (if 5-4 then ♠are 4 and ♥are 5) or 5-5. Here at our club in Varanasi (India) we play both and can show it either ways. 1. 1♣or 1♦---- 2♥ (shows 5-4 in majors, 7-9 hcps) . ---- 2♠ (shows 5-4 in majors, 10-11 hcps) While playing Multi 2D which includes a)either a weak 6 carder major or b)4441, 17-19 hcps or c)strong acol type hand in any minor the bidding goes; 1. 2♦(alerted) ----- 2♥(forced relay,alertable) 2NT (alerted, 4441) ----- 3♣(relay to show the short suit) 3♥short♠ ----- ? (Simply 4♥ or slam interest) I think this the tricky place where the responder has to calculate precisely whether explore slam or should be content with game only. If the opener has a hand like ♠x ♥KQxx ♦AKxx ♣AKxx the slam is on. With the given hand a lot of guess is to be made and responder should be content with game.

Answer depends on what your partnership bidding agreements are. That is, how you bid your preemptive openings such as this one. Normally rule of 234 is followed. So if partner has bid with 4 losers NV vs V and with 8 cards in Spades. She certainly have some defensive values also in order to decrease the loser count. Looking at your hand with 2 Quick tricks and a loser count, 5D double will go down certainly.