interesting bidding sequence

[DonMario]

I just wanted to share an interesting (funny??) bidding sequence that I used recently with my regular partner in a local club tournament.

 

The normal sequence with standard conventions would probably have been

 

1H - 2NT (Jacoby)- 3S (short)- 4NT (KC asking) - 5D (0 or 3) - 6H (no need to ask for the Q with one ace missing)

 

We have modified our system to bid hands that are the same strength as 2NT but with a singleton or void to be 1H-2S ( it can also be 5-6 hcp still with 4-card H, a sort of semi Bergen block.

This allows us to bid splinter with 9-11 hcp with no particular interest in slam.

 

We also use 4S for KC asking in H when there is no possible ambiguity.

 

Finally we use a five steps answer to KC asking where the fifth step is 3+Q (second step is 0 possibly with Q or 3 without Q)

 

So our bidding sequence went

 

1H - 2S - 3S - 4S - 5S - 6H.

 

Needless to say that we alerted and explained the bids to our opponents, lest they think we had lost our mind...

[Fluffy]

I've also added more responses to my RCKW structure, also adding to the mix 2+ void into the 3/0 response for weak openings.

[fromageGB]

A nice spade sequence, 4 in a row. I could nearly do that (2♠ is jacoby for me and can show a shortage later) but we would bid 3NT after 3♠ to see if the shortage was void or singleton before ace asking with 4♠. How does your asker know whether the missing ace was not in spades with that offset by a spade void?