West is worth a limit raise regardless of your methods. If you aren't playing drury, then I can see being hesitant about bidding to the 3 level, but with 4 trumps, the law protects you.

I agree, the shape and great trumps in the West hand make it worth a limit raise.  Use Drury if playing it and bid 3H if not.

Morgann, this hand is a sound limit raise. And it's a good hand for Reverse Drury.

 

Most play Reverse Drury promises a fit and 10 in support. To me, the hand is 11 in support, so I used Reverse Drury.

 

I suspect you are looking only at the hcpts, and that's okay for NT contracts. But when you have a major-suit fit, counting distribution adds in something for the fact that you can ruff partner's losers.

 

To count your hand in support of partner's major, count your hcpts, and add the distribution values. I suggest using Goren's "dummy points." When you have a known 8-card or longer fit, count your hcpts, add 1 point for each small doubleton and 3 points for each singleton. Don't count distribution in partner's second suit, though, because that will duplicate values he is counting.

 

Skip this, Morgann because you hate such references: (Using the losing trick count (my back-up method), the hand has 8 losers, invitational.)

Btw, Morgann. If I were East and my pd raised my 1H opener to 2H, I wouldn't consider bidding on.