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What's 4NT, episode 987


mgoetze

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Eh it's just standard 2/1. Clubs or single-suited too strong for 3.

 

I know what the convention is but not the followups. Now you have shown the spade single-suiter you don't have clubs most of the time anyway so you could argue why treat responder's minors differently. Okay opener is sometimes 6-4 - I suppose you may as well use 4C to catch this...

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Surely 4 is natural here? I wasn't sure whether the standard meaning of 4 should be "diamonds" or "I like spades".

4th suit at the 4 level is typically best used as a good raise. If Responder had wanted to introduce diamonds they could have done it the last time around. It is not like a quantitative 4NT rules out finding a diamond fit either assuming natural continuations rather than any sort of ace-showing (ie 5 now is usually going to be a max 6034).

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