Shapely and pretty strong

[Free]

You hold:

[hv=d=w&v=e&s=skqj65hdkt97632c7]133|100|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

The auction starts:

Pass - 1♥ - Dbl - ???

 

Your bid? (playing STANDARD agreements plz)

[whereagles]

1♠ + some nr. of diamonds later.

[Finch]

2♦, unless you are going to say you play this as non-forcing.

[ArtK78]

2♦, whether forcing or not. I do not expect this to be passed out. If it is, it is probably right for us.

 

I will bid my spades later.

[inquiry]

2♦, plan on bidding spades twice later...2♦ is forcing. If I play some transfer stuff, then i transfer to diamonds...

[pclayton]

2♦. No reason why we can't expect to get our suits in. Hopefully it doesn't go float.

[Apollo81]

When I read the post title my first thought was "What is 'how ____ likes his women?'"

[Apollo81]

to actually answer the queston -- 2♦, whether forcing or not, planning to bid spades next

[mikeh]

I believe that 2♦ non-forcing is standard in NA. Which, of course, is one of the arguments in favour of transfer advances over RHO's takeout double :)

 

As it is, I share the thoughts of those who say 2♦ regardless of meaning. The odds seem pretty good that partner will chirp 2♥ or that an opp will find some clubs to bid. I have gone +190 several times, but there is no risk of that here... plus 150 is, however, a real possibility B)

[Guest Jlall]

2D NF is standard here, but transfers are pretty much expert standard now. Anyways, I would show diamonds regardless of whether it was forcing, NF, or transfer.

[Cascade]

2♦ and I play it as NF.

[han]

2D, I guess NF but I don't know many who play that.

[the hog]

1S and bid my Ds later

[andy_h]

2D then spades

[Codo]

I nearly always bid my longest suit first, but not this time. I have a strong major to show and I don´t expect that the bidding will be easier after a 2 Diamond call. (It could be when pd bids hearts but it is not when they bid clubs).

[helene_t]

2♦, I suppose it's old-fashioned to play this as natural NF but on this hand it's no big deal. In fact I'm happy not to have to transfer with 2♣ which LHO could double.