Hi Bobby,

In BWTA what is the minimum hand partner should have to bid 4D? I would expect if he has less than the diamond K and a round A, he’d bid 4H instead. His bid, I think, further improved your hand and makes a 4S bid appropriate.

If you now bid 4H, he’s likely looking at a couple spade losers and a bad trump suit. If he has a hand as bad as Qx 10xxxx Kxx Axx (or something similar), slam actually looks good, but should partner make a try with this?

Courtesy of the TOCM ™ hand generator:

Jxx
A10xx
KQ10x
QJ

Thanks Jim2,

Never said it was a guaranteed slam! Besides, with the opponents having all those clubs, my rosé colored glasses would figure maybe someone has the doubleton spade Q.

Actually, the club shortness and balance in the other suits would be a red flag, though likely not enough to keep me from bidding.

Me either Ted. I agree with your analysis, and hope I never get the affliction that Jim2 has although there have been times……..

Hi Ted, Jim2, and (of course Jane A) monitoring,

No doubt, our magic carpet has taken off, searching for bridge Nirvana, next stop over the rainbow and Oz. While flying at warp speed, we visualize different type hands which fit the prototype of what it takes to jump to game via a splinter.

Logically by definition a splinter at the four level is a slam try, so let us consider the three major ingredients of what it takes to make one.

1. Not being off two immediate tricks, whether they are both in one suit, or not enough first round controls (two or fewer).
2. An adequate trump suit, both numbers and solidity.
3. A source of tricks where optimism often requires an outside solid enough combined suit (often 5+ long or longer) where the partner of that suit has the proper filling honors if necessary.

On this particular hand it will be easy to find out that #1 is satisfied when all the opener or even the responder, as the case may be needs to do is ask for key cards (or just aces as the case might be). Number 2 becomes pretty evident since the opener is blessed not only with the KQ of trump but the J as well which sometimes, especially when TOCM is threatened, becomes a necessary safety play.

However #3 is not in the cards, at least at this moment, not even a 5 card suit, For example change the diamond suit from AJ9x to AKxxxx and we can do away with the king of spades and maybe even our secondary heart honors (assuming partner has as much as A sixth or even AQxxx)

Let me say now that even with the specific hand mentioned, no one could justifiably criticize a 4 spade response to partner’s 4 diamond bid. To be blunt, with a panel of the world’s best players, playing this type of system I do believe that over 1/2 of them would indeed cue bid 4 spades, and whether or not others may or may not choose that bid would depend on their sophisticated slam bidding judgment, even narrowing it down to how aggressive each one of them has consistently responded.

It becomes a partnership matter for two partners to learn to blend together, depending on which hand they happen to hold, whether to be aggressive or conservative compensating for his or her partner, who is trying to also calibrate his judgment to what partner will normally expect.

Finally my experience in slam bidding and, of course, with mostly wonderful and thoughtful partners (however, some aggressive, some not so) the fact that there may not be a long suit in ether hand, usually takes on a hue of several suits having to rely on reasonable multiple suit breaks (and sometimes finesses) in order to take at least 12 tricks.

In the case at hand diamonds is the key suit and although partner has cue bid in that suit, he will possibly think that Kxx is better than Kx, but in truth it isn’t, at least normally. Number 2 in importance is the length partner has in his trump suit with only four opposite the opener’s announced four becoming dangerous.

Remember when we choose a 4 heart return instead of the spade cue bid, doesn’t automatically end slam investigating. It is only for that partnership to each decide what they would bid over 4 diamonds (assuming both agreed to bid 4 diamonds to start with).

If the above sounds somewhat complicated is because it is, however that complication has to do with a partnership decision of who is better placed to bid what, depending on which hand is held.

Again my experience has suggested to me that the best partnerships through the years consist of two partners who understand the nature of each others bridge reasoning. Without that asset, no matter how talented either or both are, their airplane ride to Oz may end with instead of the wicked witch killed upon landing will instead destroy their own precious bridge partnership.

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