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[ggwhiz]

Double and 5♥ are all eggs in one basket bids and I'm not comfortable with either should we be opposite 4 cards in hearts with bad breaks looming.

 

Since I don't consider either bid to be clear cut, the decision ALWAYS belongs to pass out seat. In this case a 3rd seat opener could have anything from power to shape with both or a bit of a joke. Is North diving or giving up on slam? Only pard knows.

[MrAce]

I think playing forcing pass and/or playing double for a specific meaning, rather than natural is odd in this auction..

 

In a competitive auction, where nobody knows who has the strength and everyone bidding, and 1 side reaching 5 level. This is like the border area between El Paso Texas and Juarez Mexico. All bad things happen there and you just can not disable yourself from passing and sitting on a 5 level contract, without your pass indicating anything other than what it actually says

 

If we play some sort of forcing pass here, i don't see an end to it. We may as well play it everywhere.

 

"Oh, i have balanced 6 hcp, but my cards seems to fit pd's hand! Lets create a pdship agreement which makes our pass forcing in order to cover these type of hands, in this type of auctions, because forcing passesand/or doubles solves 5 level decisions perfectly !"

 

In fact, i don't see any bid better than a natural pass here. We are sitting behind 2♣ overcaller, and we would definetely dbl with any numberof ♣ trick(s). If pd is void in clubs, he knows we dont have wasted values there. He is either 5431 6430 5530 5521 etc. In most cases if we held ♦ values instead of ♠ A, that would be useful as well. So pd knows whatever we have will be working, by simply looking at our natural pass.