How would you handle this?

[shyams]

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I'd like to hear what you'd do here. Partner and I were playing a standard 2/1 type system. FYI: This is the last board of the round, and opps appear to be overbidders.

 

1. Do you agree with the negative dbl?

2. What action do you take now?

 

Thanks

[gordontd]

1. Do you agree with the negative dbl?

2. What action do you take now?

 

Thanks

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.

[wyman]

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.

 

+1. This has to describe this hand.

[BunnyGo]

I agree with gordontd, but would like to elaborate a little. Your hand particularly would like to show hearts from the start, but you don't have the strength for it. A "standard" use (when you are responder) of double is that if you then bid at your next turn you are showing a hand with a long suit but not enough points to bid it the first time. This seems to sum your hand up perfectly.

[dickiegera]

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.

 

I agree also. Need now to bid 2♥. Partner will not expect more than what you have.

[ArtK78]

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.

This should be (nearly) unanimous. It is the textbook way to handle a single-suited hand with less strength than an immediate bid would show (i.e., the type of hand that would make a negative free bid).

[Free]

When not playing negative freebids, then Dbl followed by 2♥ shows this sort of hand. You can't be stronger because then you would've bid 2♥ immediately.