[jillybean]

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2♦= A/K

How do you play X here and what is your bid?

[Fluffy]

penalty becvause pass is take out

[sasioc]

Penalty. I play that when pass is forcing, double is for blood.

[MrAce]

I think i play different than the previous posters.

-I pass if i want a double

-I bid 2 NT with the hands that i was about to bid 2NT without the overcall and stopper(s)

-I double with the hands that i was about to bid 2 NT but have no stopper.

[phil_20686]

The double here normally just shows the balanced options imo. I think pass an 3D are on the radar here. You do not want to be defending 2sx if partner has 4 diamonds particularly.Besides which, normally if you are beating 2S by two you will be making 3N.

[Zelandakh]

There are 3 choices. The most common is to play double as penalty and pass as forcing with nothing better to say, typically a balanced hand. An alternative is to play double as take-out and pass (almost) forcing a double, usually with a penalty double. I say almost since Responder should not double with a hand that would not sit a penalty double. The advantage of the second method is that you can include some additional hand types into the pass, the disadvantage is that it becomes harder to judge opposite the (common) big balanced hand. The last alternative is to play X as big balanced and pass as (almost) forcing a double as per Method 2. 2NT now becomes the take-out bid. I think this last method is probably the best option (providing you can remember it!). I would assume the first without having discussed it though and this has the clear advantage of not requiring any new rules over other forcing pass situations.

[ahydra]

Normally if partner has a 1-suited or 2-suited hand he will bid a suit, so I'm guessing he has something like a 23 balanced, in which case I'll bid 3NT.

ahydra