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What are your agreements about Double, 2NT and 3H here ?
Partner's double was takeout promising 4 card spades (or a hand too strong to overcall directly in another denomination).
Make the opponents' suit diamonds and this would be a Responsive double promising majors 4-4.
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(1H) X (2H) ?
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Lebensohl on for us
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Cyberyeti, on 2025-January-11, 14:27, said:
Lebensohl on for us
In this situation especially you need _reverse_ lebensohl. In a standard lebensohl, you get (1♥) - X - (2♥) - 2NT - (4♥) - ???
Doubler badly needs to know advancer's long suit.
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Posted Today, 16:51
bluenikki, on 2025-January-11, 15:36, said:
In this situation especially you need _reverse_ lebensohl. In a standard lebensohl, you get (1♥) - X - (2♥) - 2NT - (4♥) - ???
Doubler badly needs to know advancer's long suit.
Doubler badly needs to know advancer's long suit.
We do actually play reverse, probably transfer is as good as any
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Posted Today, 18:32
We don’t play reverse lebensohl. I see the argument for it, akin to the debate over good-bad or bad-good 2N
I don’t play that the double of 1H shows 4 spades. That has all the indices of an unplayable method. Give me AQx xx AJxx Kxxx and why on earth would I want to have to pass? Surely nobody actually plays that?
As for the question:
Double shows both minors. 2N shows a one suited minor, less than forward-going, although one could play something for 2N then 3S over partner’s probable 3C.
3H sets a gf. Doubler bids naturally.
I don’t play that the double of 1H shows 4 spades. That has all the indices of an unplayable method. Give me AQx xx AJxx Kxxx and why on earth would I want to have to pass? Surely nobody actually plays that?
As for the question:
Double shows both minors. 2N shows a one suited minor, less than forward-going, although one could play something for 2N then 3S over partner’s probable 3C.
3H sets a gf. Doubler bids naturally.
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