Re: Are You Slammin', and if so how?

On Apr 22, 10:47 am, "Kieran Dyke" <tig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 21, 6:30 pm, "Kieran Dyke" <tig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "StevieTee" <ste...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Hello Everyone!
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> > > OK, you are vulnerable, and the opponents ain't, and you pick up:
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> > > --void--
> > > xx
> > > Q98xxxx
> > > K9xx
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> > > You are pleasantly surprised to hear your partner open in 1st seat
> > > with 2NT (20 to 21 hcps). Do you have a system for handling this
type
> > > of hand? What is your bidding plan?
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> > > Thanks in advance - Steve Sun
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> > Playing ordinary methods, I can bid an easy natural, forcing 4D. Then
move
> > over 4H or 5C, sign off in 5D over 4S or 4NT (which is natural and
> > regressive).
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> > Tiggrr
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> Would not 4d = Texas transfer to hearts in "ordinary methods"?  At the
> very least, I would assume that 4d is not natural if it were to come
> up in an undiscussed auction, just as I would assume that 1nt-2s was
> not natural.
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> Henrysun909
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> I don't think I know anybody in Australia who plays 4D as a transfer to
> hearts. But I do know a lot of people who play 4C as a transfer to
hearts,
> especially opposite 1NT openings.
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> Normal here is 4C and 4D as natural opposite 2NT. It's hard to imagine a
> more useless bid than an uncertain but probably conventional 4D bid.
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> Tiggrr

Not as useless as you may think.
1N - 2D
2H - 4H (is a mild slam invite sequence)
while
1N - 4D
4H ( for a sign-off)
Same goes after 2N while 4C is 'Gerber' that one can normally use when
holding a one-suiter.
The 4C bid that you are mentioning is called the 'African Transfer' if
I am not mistaken.

Cheers
Boris