Hi, Joe, the lovely fight is back again ;) While I understand that your double was OK and 5Hx should not be removed and also you have the ambiguity whether you are playing Lebensohl/Texas or not? You could have certainly used 3S as a forcing bid and got a reply of 4S which would have given the impression you need something from your partnerin spades whereas in actual bidding it did not suggest... I agree that even after that 5Hx should not be removed. But u must agree 3S is a far better option than the shot in the dark like 4S was. Also the example of Texas you have given is wrong... As for 4th level transfers you need to have 6 cards... just because you are not playing certain conventions i.e. Lebensohl, another convention cannot be altered. If you think of LTC your texas transfer would actually mean you are having a 9 card fit rather than the 8 card fit and decision must be based on these actual trump counts often (not on this deal though). Best of luck for your continued partnership with Lex! Over!!! Aray
