[kfay]

A decent player made me do a double-take when he said he wouldn't cue.

Scoring: IMP

1♥-1♠
3♦-3♠

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Hand's pretty good, right?

[mich-b]

The hand is pretty good , though not good enough for a GF 3♦ for me - I would rebid 2♦.

After 3♠ , perhaps what your decent-player-friend implied , is that a cue (4♣)
would show 3 card ♠ support (3541, or maybe even 3631), and a direct raise to 4♠ would show doubleton ♠.

[kfay]

mich-b, on May 4 2009, 06:57 AM, said:

The hand is pretty good , though not good enough for a GF 3♦ for me - I would rebid 2♦.

After 3♠ , perhaps what your decent-player-friend implied , is that a cue (4♣)
would show 3 card ♠ support (3541, or maybe even 3631), and a direct raise to 4♠ would show doubleton ♠.

Yeah it's probably a little weak. I had some decent heart spots though. We were down 45 in a team game.... maybe this is the wrong way to make it up.

[mcphee]

Too weak for a jump shift. On this auction I raise to 4S and let partner go nuts.

[whereagles]

I would cue 4♣ if I were 110% sure pard would take it as such.

Otherwise just a boring 4♠.

[jdonn]

Of course not good enough for a cue, it was a stretch to jump shift and just a doubleton spade. Consider that a small diamond could have been the king of spades in this hand and then you see what a cue looks like.

[hanp]

3D was an overbid but now we have a comfortable 4S bid.

[JLOL]

3S doesn't even promise 6 of them you know...very obvious 4S.

[P_Marlowe]

Make the Cue.

You are sub min for the 3D bid, but you decided to overbid,
so I would go for the pot burried at the end of the rainbow.

Partners 3S denied long hearts, i.e. you basically have no
wastage in hearts, you have a ruffing value in clubs, and the
Ace of trumps, i.e. the ruffing value should materialize, even
after a trump lead.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[hanp]

Give partner a some hands where slam is good, don't you think they wil bid over 4S with most of them?

You could have AJx AKxxx AKJx x instead, careful with what you show.

[jdonn]

P_Marlowe, on May 4 2009, 11:06 AM, said:

Make the Cue.

You are sub min for the 3D bid, but you decided to overbid,
so I would go for the pot burried at the end of the rainbow.

I think we can improve upon logic like "I have already overbid once so I might as well do so again."

[cherdanno]

P_Marlowe, on May 4 2009, 11:06 AM, said:

Make the Cue.

You are sub min for the 3D bid, but you decided to overbid,
so I would go for the pot burried at the end of the rainbow.

Partners 3S denied long hearts, i.e. you basically have no
wastage in hearts, you have a ruffing value in clubs, and the
Ace of trumps, i.e. the ruffing value should materialize, even
after a trump lead.

With kind regards
Marlowe

I think you misunderstand what the cue shows. 4♣ doesn't show a club control, and 4♠ does not deny one. 4♣ simply says "I have a raise, and a good one (given the context of my previous bidding)".

[ArtK78]

You have already overbid your hand. Now just raise to game. If partner can't bid any further, then there probably isn't a slam (and I wouldn't guarantee that you will make 4♠).