Comments on: Slam Potential with a Void http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/ Contract Bridge Themes with a Midwest Accent! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Mohan http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-153 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:08:09 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-153 I bid 4S which is exclusion key card blackwood. Steps are 0, 1, 2... Queen ask is the next step. I bid 4S which is exclusion key card blackwood. Steps are 0, 1, 2…

Queen ask is the next step.

]]> by: george jacobs http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-148 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:34:33 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-148 I would like to offer 1 consideration for Joe. Often, on your sequence, 4 Spades will be the final contract. Exclusion B/W has to be treated gently. If there is a way to mis-interpret it, be assured that partner will do so with alacrity. Try 5 Spades and there is no confusion. If he shows 1 just play 6 hearts, if 2 play 7. If not knowing about the queen is troublesome to you, Start with Jacoby 2 NT, and cue bid. After pard cues Spades at any point, but especially if he does NOT, just use old Black to get what you need. I would like to offer 1 consideration for Joe. Often, on your sequence, 4 Spades will be the final contract. Exclusion B/W has to be treated gently. If there is a way to mis-interpret it, be assured that partner will do so with alacrity. Try 5 Spades and there is no confusion. If he shows 1 just play 6 hearts, if 2 play 7. If not knowing about the queen is troublesome to you, Start with Jacoby 2 NT, and cue bid. After pard cues Spades at any point, but especially if he does NOT, just use old Black to get what you need.

]]> by: Joe Stokes http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-145 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:44:41 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2007/01/24/slam-potential-with-a-void/#comment-145 Over exclusion (here it would be a forcing heart raise, followed by a jump to 4S), I'd respond just as I would to 4NT key card: 1st step = 0/3 (or 1/4 if playing 1430), etc. Over a response that says nothing about the trump queen, the next step asks for the queen and the step after than (skipping one open step) asks for specific kings. In short, I play exactly the same step responses over exclusion as I play over key card (although, obviously, in some sequences you run out of steps sooner after some exclusion bids). Over exclusion (here it would be a forcing heart raise, followed by a jump to 4S), I’d respond just as I would to 4NT key card: 1st step = 0/3 (or 1/4 if playing 1430), etc. Over a response that says nothing about the trump queen, the next step asks for the queen and the step after than (skipping one open step) asks for specific kings. In short, I play exactly the same step responses over exclusion as I play over key card (although, obviously, in some sequences you run out of steps sooner after some exclusion bids).

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