BRIDGE MASTERCLASS

J962 974 82 K 10 6 4 AT GAME to your opponents, your partner deals and bids 1 , which next hand doubles. What do you bid? I hAVe been over these bids before, but it won’t hurt to recap as so many people still get them wrong.

Without the double, your hand would hardly have been worth a raise to 2 , with only four honour points and an extra one for the doubleton.

Now with your RhO competing with a takeout double, you need to make it as difficult as possible for your LhO to give his partner information about his hand.

In this situation the limit raises may be devalued, from a purely pre-emptive point of view. Your correct response here, then, is 2 .