L.O.L. in this context stands for Little Ol' Lady, not the well known Internet jargon, laughing out loud.

Now nothing personal gang, but I see this happen a zillion times a week, and I'd love to see it happen a bit less often. L.O.L. number one doubles with the North cards in the example hand, and after South goes leaping in her own suit as she should, North tries to "correct." This is nearly always a disastrous combination.

The usual justification North offers is that she wanted to let partner know she had an opening hand rather than a sub-opening overcall value. Truth is, it is counterproductive to try to impart this information in this way.

Takeout Double Guidelines

• Double for takeout only when you hold one of the following two kinds of hands. With other holdings, more effective calls are available, including pass by the way.
  1. You hold a minimum opening hand, shortness in the enemy suit, and support (which means at least three good cards) in all of the unbid suits.
  2. You have 16 or more high card points with most any distribution.
     Exception 1: a 1NT overcall.
     Exception 2: If they bid your one good suit, pass, defend venomously, then be gallant afterward consoling them about their bad luck in the trumps.
• Partner will know which of the two types of takeout double you hold because of your subsequent call: With type one, you will pass; with type two, you will not.
• Holding a full but minimum opening hand with one or two long suits, bid the longer suit or the higher ranking of equal length suits and be patient. Even though this is also what you would do with an overcall value, partner will know you have an opening hand when you choose not to pass next time. For the two-suited variety, many tournament players choose special conventions.
• Pass the Offshape Double hand no matter how much it pains you in the beginning.

Offshape Double is a hand which conforms to rule one above except that the hand is long in the enemy suit rather than short, for example:

 A Q 10 9   Q 7 5 4   -    A J 8 5 4

Over your opponent's 1 bid, this holding is well qualified for a takeout double. Over one of anything else, it is not because of the "shape" (the hand pattern). As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, partner will go leaping in your shortest suit if you commit the sin of the Offshape Double.

A final note on the L.O.L. Double: If North insists on doubling with a minimum opening hand, how shall she indicate a superior hand (16+)? Many L.O.L.s go jumping the next time around. This frequently has the effect of putting the partnership in a misfit at the four or five level. Not good.

For many more examples of making takeout doubles and the many combinations of auctions that follow them, try the following.

Bridge Bidding Made Easy. Edwin B. Kantar.
Wilshire Book Company. 1978.
ISBN 0-87980-012-7.
Chapter 5, "Defensive Bidding (The Overcall)"
Chapter 6, "Defensive Bidding (The Takeout Double)"