On the limit by Bobby Wolff

A: Pass: Assuming your RHO's double is negative rather than penalty, which would normally be the case, your best bet is to pass and hope that your LHO removes the double -- after which your next prayer should be that your partner does not repeat his spades. If you are unlucky enough to have run into a penalty double, redouble here would be rescue, so you might risk that action.

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A: 3♦: It would not be wrong to show a good high-card raise in clubs with a cue-bid of two hearts. The problem is that if partner fits diamonds, both sides could be making vast numbers of tricks -- and how is partner to know that? If you trust your partner to be a sound overcaller, you might jump to three diamonds, a fit jump showing good diamonds and a raise to four clubs or more.

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A: 2♣: The phrase "it goes without saying" is almost redundant, especially at bridge. Here, it almost goes without saying that when you have game-forcing values facing an opening bid, you should normally respond in your longest suit. Exceptions come when your second suit is a major and of much better quality than your minor. That is emphatically not the case here, so bid two clubs.

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A: Double: Your hand seems just a little too good to pass here, so if you are going to keep the auction open, what call is most flexible? I think doubling for takeout is the best way to get all suits into play. After all, how do you protect against partner having a doubleton club? We've all done worse -- I think.

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A: 2♠: If I were a passed hand, I would treat this hand as a limit raise by cue-bidding two clubs. (If you wanted to agree that two hearts was also a raise by a passed hand, you might do so, I suppose.) As an unpassed hand, though, I would simply raise to two spades. My defensive length in the opponents' likely trump suits does not make me want to encourage partner to bid on with a marginal hand.

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