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Interested in styles

Poll: Time to apply pressure? (32 member(s) have cast votes)

What would you bid?

  1. 4H, because I have a game bid (20 votes [52.63%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 52.63%

  2. 4H, because it might apply pressure to LHO (8 votes [21.05%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 21.05%

  3. 3D, because I dont like to be in poor games (2 votes [5.26%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 5.26%

  4. 3D, because I want partner to know what to do over 4S (3 votes [7.89%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.89%

  5. Other (5 votes [13.16%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 13.16%

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Posted 2011-September-02, 10:09

I like the 4m bid in an uncontested auction to show a powerhouse 5-5 (or better) which couldn't open 2♣....but which is still interested in a slam opposite a single raise....which I happen to usually play as semi-constructive, such that slam is still possible. So x AKJxx AKxxx Kx would be a prototypical 4♦ call after 1♥ (P) 2♥ (P).

Auto-splinters would usually be based on single-suit powerhouses and many of those that would be interested in slam after a single raise would be opened 2♣.

My preference would be to use 4♦ in the OP auction in this same fashion. Partner will look at fillers in our suits and cover cards in the side suits. Jxxx Qxx Qx Axxx would be an excellent hand on such an auction.

This meaning takes a back seat to the need to involve partner in a high-level decision should there be a significant risk of having to decide what to do over 4♠.
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