Come on, take it out, really?

[ArtK78]

♠KQ103

♥A

♦Q9

♣AKQ1082

I am sure that if you gave this hand to a bidding panel, or posted it as a Forum question, double would get significant support. No doubt 4C would also get significant support.

 

However, change one card - change the ♥A to the ♦2:

 

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Now, double would get nearly universal support. Do you like passing 3♥x now?

[Finch]

With the three people I play with most often:

 

- With one I would pass 3Hx all the time

- With one I would bid 4C all the time

- With one I might do one, might do the other, it would depend on the opponents, the event, the score....

 

It always helps to know partner's preferences, and what hands partner likes to double on.

 

Art is getting some flak for saying he doesn't want to bring back various disasters to team-mates, but I find it helps to know what partner (and team-mates, to a lesser extent) believes is correct because that leads to partnership harmony. If I'm not sure what the correct bid is, and I know partner feels strongly about it, then why not make partner happy?

 

 

By the way, I play

 

3H x P 4C

P 4H

 

as unambiguously agreeing clubs and 4S is a cue.

 

As we no longer double with a single-suiter, we play, say

 

3H x P 4C

P 4D

 

as showing a very strong 4252 or similar (4153, 3163, 4063) over which 4S is natural.

[whereagles]

Double with a strong 4126 hand? Is this standard?

If you have the other major, yes, it's becoming more and more common.

[Guest Jlall]

Double with a strong 4126 hand? Is this standard?

If you have the other major, yes, it's becoming more and more common.

Count me in for "this is a completely standard double"