Am I crazy?

[whereagles]

Fred: doh! that's an obvious take-out dbl of 4♥ :)

 

j/k

[keylime]

Playing four card majors these days, I raise because of Fred's reasoning, almost verbatim.

[jikl]

The other thing to think about is how often a major is actually a 4 card suit. If you are bidding all 4 card suits up the line (exception perhaps for 4441s) then most of the time a major is actually a 5 card suit.

 

Sean

[Rossoneri]

The other thing to think about is how often a major is actually a 4 card suit. If you are bidding all 4 card suits up the line (exception perhaps for 4441s) then most of the time a major is actually a 5 card suit.

 

Sean

Agreed. Majors are usually 5 carders except for distributions like 4-4-3-2 and 4-3-3-3 if you play it that way.

[Gerben42]

I played about two sessions worth of 4-card majors (okay when I was a beginner I played it but I don't remember any hands from that and was more worried about other things *g) and had similar problems.

 

On the other hand I have played many sessions playing 4-card majors canape, meaning that partner very often has exactly 4, for example on a 2416-distribution, but I'd still bid 4H opposite that (see Fred's post).

 

In my opinion it's a problem that is a tricky part of the "4-card major but usually 5 anyway" systems, but not on the actual hand.

[jchiu]

I'm definitely late to the thread, but the topic question has one answer .... obvio :P

 

I've played a fair amount of strong-club oriented four-card majors, and even then I overbid by putting 4♥ on the table, most of the time before waiting the required ten seconds.