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[Event "04/26/11  Regular Game"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Board "9"]
[West ""]
[North ""]
[East ""]
[South ""]
[Dealer "N"]
[Vulnerable "EW"]
[Deal "N:K632.T874.Q82.43 98.AK5.A7.KT7652 QT4.J632.JT954.8 AJ75.Q9.K63.AQJ9"]
[Scoring ""]
[Declarer ""]
[Contract ""]
[Result ""]
{\n
This deal was a bit of a bidding challenge for West. After a 1\C-1\S; 2\C
start, West has a great deal of slam interest but no convenient descriptive
bid available. The book bid is probably a forcing 4\C, which will surely get
the partnership to slam on this deal as East has a super max 2\C bid with
outstanding controls. However, one can picture plenty of other 2\C rebids (Kx
AJ Qxx KTxxxx) where slam is not so great. You never want to be in 5 of a
minor when 3NT is making at matchpoints. West might improvise with a forcing
and ambiguous 2\D, after which East should jump to 3NT and show an excellent
2\C rebid in context (denying three \S or four \H in most expert
partnerships). With that, West should bid 4\C (forcing!) and either via
cuebidding, Blackwood or both the  partnership should get to the laydown 6\C. 

You might infer from the above comments that I really liked the East hand, and
I decided to upgrade it to a 15-17 NT at my first turn. Aces, kings and tens
are undervalued, and even though the hand is very suit oriented, it is always
a good idea to get the general nature of your hand across in a single bid when
possible. My partner was not certain that we would be on the same page about
the meaning of a jump to 4NT after Stayman (it is quantitative in standard
inviting 6NT, but occasional partnerships often have a mix-up on these types
of sequences), so she made a direct (and conservative) 4NT call in response to
1NT. Even though I only had 14 HCP, her failure to use Stayman was encouraging
(partner should have some stuff in the minors), I had great controls and a
source of tricks in clubs. Jeff Goldsmith, whose wonderful website is linked
on our club site, has a fun section where he lists his "Imperious Rules of
Bridge." (http://www.jeff-goldsmith.org/bridge/rules.html). Rules 39 and 40
suggested I needed to accept this invitation, so I bid 6\C over 4NT and we
found slam. 

One last piece of advice is to have an understanding with partner what bids
mean along the way after a quantitative 4NT as it can't hurt to have some
understanding there. Pass and 6NT are easy, but do five level bids show aces
and accept, or suggest a potential better strain? The latter will either be a
five card suit or a strong four card minor; you can assume that Stayman would
have been employed if partner had a four card major. I've run across people
playing the ace-asking way, but I strongly recommend the latter meaning as the
better agreement so you can play in a suit when you have a fit, and try 6NT
otherwise. Gerber is always there to ask for aces if need be.        }
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N  H  3
N  D  4
N  C  1
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E  S 11
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S  D  4
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