mike777 Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 can live with 4s or rkc now. On the one hand I have a nice duke on the other I did bid 2/1 and then 4c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OleBerg Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 [hv=d=n&v=n&s=s109xha10xxdakq109c10]133|100|Scoring: IMP1S - 2D2S - 4C - (dbl)4H - ??[/hv] Your call?As I see it, the problem with RKC isn't getting into a bad slam, it's not getting into a good one. If we're not off two keycards, partner must have something resembling a trick outside his AKQxx of spades. He did bid 4 hearts. The problem is, if partner has something like AKJxxx in spades, and something resmbling a trick. I'd go for the keycard anyway, as partner will sometimes bid AKJxxx as if he had the queen. The alternative could be 5♠ if it asked partner to raise only with solid thrumps. I wouldn't dare bid it without a specific agreement. An aside: Is it obvious that 4♣ is a splinter? Why is it not just a cue? What do you bid with a hand that is simply to god for a direct 4♠? And what would 4♥ have been? With respect to the last questions, with a hand too good for 4♠, I'd bid 3♠, inviting partner to cue. In my regular partnerships, 4♥ would be a splinter as well. As for what's obvious in a pick-up partnership...hard to say, but I would have taken 4♣ as a splinter. One of the "treatment" discussions I try to have with pickup partners is that bidding one level higher than a natural, forcing bid in a suit is a splinter. 3♣ and 3♥ are natural and forcing, so 4♣ and 4♥ are splinters. 3♠ is stronger than 4♠ on general principles.Didn't consider that 3♠ wuld be forcing in 2/1. Now I know, thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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