I Want to Bid Doubles
There are certain auctions where we have made a bid that has “fully described our hand” and we leave the bidding up to partner. In auctions like these, for example when we have opened the bidding with a preempt at the 2-level or 3-level, then we usually are not very sure of what partner has for their bid and we want to leave any further decisions up to them. But sometimes we have more shape than partner expects or our instincts tell us that is right to bid on. When that is the case we do NOT want to just take over and bid again – we told partner we would not bid anymore after our first bid. In an auction like this we can use a Double as a conventional bid saying “I want to bid more”. This is called an I Want to bid Double and it applies in very specific situations