[msheald]

Hello! I (obviously) misinterpreted my partners double. Ops diamond bid was alerted as meaning hearts. We play systems on with NT over interference.

I viewed the double as either a negative double with 4 spades or transfer to spades with 5. It could not mean a stolen bid with transfer to hearts with ops bid.

How should I have interpreted it? Best regards.

Mike


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[Cyberyeti]

Double of a conventional bid showing the suit is pretty common

[mw64ahw]

X of a suit is usually penalty or takeout by agreement, but in this case I would treat it as negative, but not GF given the transfer. You can double hearts after transfer completion. If I want to show ♦ then either via 2N to show weak ♦ or via 3♣ otherwise.

[AL78]

mw64ahw, on 2024-June-22, 05:22, said:

X of a suit is usually penalty or takeout by agreement, but in this case I would treat it as negative, but not GF given the transfer. You can double hearts after transfer completion. If I want to show ♦ then either via 2N to show weak ♦ or via 3♣ otherwise.

There is a case for having the double as wanting to penalise a heart contract, since bidding 2♥ could be used as a takeout double-type hand with short hearts and Lebensohl can be used to compete in 3m. The problem with waiting for the auction to come round again before making a takeout double is it may come round to you at the three level.

[mw64ahw]

AL78, on 2024-June-22, 11:31, said:

There is a case for having the double as wanting to penalise a heart contract, since bidding 2♥ could be used as a takeout double-type hand with short hearts and Lebensohl can be used to compete in 3m. The problem with waiting for the auction to come round again before making a takeout double is it may come round to you at the three level.

You can wait for a penalty X, if it gets raised in the meantime then even better. 2♥ as takeout is good

[msheald]

Thank you, all, for our guidance. I appreciate it. Best regards.

Mike