[quikwal]

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[Cyberyeti]

4♣ unless 3N shows a weak NT or is non serious

[pescetom]

4C.

I prefer 3N non-serious to be about poor trumps, which is not the case here.

P.S. @quikwal: please use the hand diagram tool, avoid all caps and differentiate the titles of threads.

[apollo1201]

FOR ME A SPLINTER IS NOT STRONG SO NO SLAM

x JTxxx Kxxx AQx

[Cyberyeti]

 apollo1201, on 2023-May-29, 14:51, said:

FOR ME A SPLINTER IS NOT STRONG SO NO SLAM

x JTxxx Kxxx AQx

x, J10xxx, Axx, AQJx too strong ?

For us 3♠ would already be a void, but am imagining something more standard

[bluenikki]

 Cyberyeti, on 2023-May-29, 15:37, said:

x, J10xxx, Axx, AQJx too strong ?

For us 3♠ would already be a void, but am imagining something more standard

I assume the splinter means "do not think of slam unless you have 14 outside my shortness." But I bid 4♣ anyway. I probably wouldn't at the table.

[apollo1201]

 Cyberyeti, on 2023-May-29, 15:37, said:

x, J10xxx, Axx, AQJx too strong ?

For us 3♠ would already be a void, but am imagining something more standard

Our splinter is usually 2 « useful » cards (a trop trump plus a side ace or king or 5 low trumps plus an ace and a king, rarely 2 aces)

Here the concentration of values in C make the hand too strong and I’d probably bid 2C followed by a S splinter if partner plainly repeats their suit. They will expect 54 the other way round but one often has to make with what one has!

[thepossum]

For me that is a fairly ordinary opener so I just bid game. If partner has a strong splinter they can consider going further

[quikwal]

 quikwal, on 2023-May-28, 14:50, said:

THE BIDDING

[Gilithin]

Did you re-open this thread just to delete the OP?

[quikwal]

 pescetom, on 2023-May-29, 06:01, said:

4C.

I prefer 3N non-serious to be about poor trumps, which is not the case here.

P.S. @quikwal: please use the hand diagram tool, avoid all caps and differentiate the titles of threads.

[quikwal]

I don't know how to initiate the hand diagram tool

[barmar]

 quikwal, on 2024-January-09, 11:39, said:

I don't know how to initiate the hand diagram tool

Click on the Spade symbol at the right end of the toolbar in the editor.