[irincheto]

Hello,

I would very much appreciate your help about the following hand:
♠KQ86♥AJ♦Q98♣Q1072

IMPs Tournament, nobody is vulnerable.
In second position you open 1♣, PASS, partner bids 1♦, 2♥ from the opponent. What would be the best (if anything) to rebid?

Thanks a lot.

Irina

[pclayton]

Just pass. Anything else is an overstatement.

[Winstonm]

Although others will surely disagree, the reliance of Queens to the value of this hand makes me downgrade, even with the decent spot cards. Shape is only so/so.

IMO this is a pass - my opening bid expressed my values.

If your question involves the meaning of double, I would think that double here should be cooperative, takeout in nature, and expressing extra shape or extra values or both. I am not a fan of unilateral penalty doubles here.

[CSGibson]

Agree, pass.

[neilkaz]

I also pass. This just isn't enough, IMHO, and will wait for PD to balance, if it is our hand.

[655321]

As everyone has said, this hand should pass.

Your hand is in the 'minimum balanced' range, and even though it is a pretty good hand, as far as minimum balanced hands go, that is all it is. Partner should assume you have this hand type, and accordingly will do something sensible.

If you had 4 card support for partner you could raise instead.