bid after opponents double

[navit]

IN general afyer my partner opened and opponents doubled (TO) , how do i bid?

 

1 H DOUBLE ?

[thebiker]

Many players play moreor less the same system after a double by opponents

with the following exceptions

 

XX shows 9 or 10 + and an interest in penalising the opponents, normal denies support for opener and at least 2 suits that might be useful to penalise the oppoents with.

 

Immediate raises tend to be a bit weaker than normal

 

Most players play a 2NT response to show a good raise to openers suit.

 

Many players play fit jumps, so that a jump in a new suit, shows that suit plus 4 card support for opener.

 

Hope this helps

I play in England - so some of my suggestions may not be univeral in other places

 

best regards

 

Brian Keable

Alias the biker

[Quantumcat]

Hi there,

 

My bridge teacher taught me that XX means you don't have a fit with partner, you declare the majority of the points in the pack, so you are happy to penalise the opponents, since the other one will be forced to bid after your redouble. (If he passes, partner has the easy job of removing to another suit ... you've said you have fit for anything else).

 

To stop the opponents telling each other about their suit, jump to 3H on a weak hand with four trumps according to that rule that says if you have nine you should be in 3 anyway, that'll probably beat the parscore battle, you'll still make and opp won't know what to lead. If they decide to bid on, they could easily get confused and end up too high anyway. If you don't have four hearts just say 2H on any crap with three trumps and short spades, stops them from at least saying 1S. If you have five spades yourself obviously don't bother unless you have your 2H bid.

 

Since you can't say 3H as natural (inv), say 2NT instead. What about a normal 2NT that's gameforcing? bid 3NT ... 4H would be a pre-emptive hand with distribution and five trumps. Partner will just bid 4H unless he wants to leave 3NT in, or has such distribution he wants to try for slam... in the knowledge that one opp has at least 10 points.