[dwar0123]

Wondering if my bid was crazy, it seemed fine to me but this might be one of those cases were I have internalized a really bad habit, my regular partner(my father who taught me) and I do these kinds of bids all the time. However, it caught my bbf regular partner off guard.

2/1 imps.

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[FrancesHinden]

I hate ever to say anything is 'expert standard' but I do think it is fairly universal to play all of 2S, 3S and 4S as natural on this auction. Partner promised spades when he doubled (in theory) and the only easy way to get to your spade fit (whether RHO has 0,1,2,3 or 4) is to bid them now.

If you want to cue bid, bid clubs, which is the suit partner has suggested shortness in. There's probably some clever understanding you could have about the difference between 3C and 4C, but I'd bid one of them. (We have a special agreement about 3C - that it shows a game forcing heart hand - but that isn't standard at all.)

[gszes]

IMO the following system works well overall

1m x 1M

x ability to compete in the unbid suits <xx KQxx KQxx xxx>
2 of rho suit game forcing cue bid
2 of lho suit michaels but stronger than 4 of lho suit
3/4 of rho suit natural AQJTxx(xx)
3 of lho suit 6/7 card suit missing 1 honor hoping
p can bid 3n with missing honor NF.
4 of lho suit very distributional but weakish hand at least 55

all other bids natural.

1m x 2M

x ability to compete in the unbid suits
3 of rho suit michaels
3 of lho suit same as above
4 of lho suit same as above
4 of rho suit minors
all other bids natural

1m x 3M

x 4 of the other major and 5+ of the unbid minor
4 of lho suit same as above
4 of rho suit minors
all other bids natural

this system is consistent throughout but it wont make
everyone happpy. Talk it over with your partners and
make sure you are on the same page. The hands that
specifically want to x rho will have to decide btn
NT and (passing ---knowing opps are in a bad spot----
and hoping p can x again).

Your example hand the bidding would go
1c x 1s and you would bid

4c to show your weakish but highly distributional hand.

This is a large topic and there are many more variations and different
ways to handle them. I hope this helps.