[blml] Splinter of the Mind's Eye [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Jerry Fusselman]

On 2/15/07, Laszlo Hegedus <hegelaci at cs.elte.hu> wrote:
> richard.hills at immi.gov.au wrote:
>
> >Matchpoint pairs
> >Dlr: East
> >Vul: North-South
> >
> >The bidding has gone:
> >
> >SOUTH     WEST      NORTH     EAST
> >---       ---       ---       1D
> >Pass      2C        Dble      3S(1)
> >Dble      3NT       Pass      ?
> >
> >(1) Alerted and explained as a splinter
> >bid, club support and a singleton spade
> >
> >You, East, hold:
> >
> >Q
> >AJ
> >AKT76
> >KQ863
> >
> >What call do you make?
> >What other calls do you consider making?
> >
> >
> Depends on our system only. I would ask my partners keycard with clubs
> as trump and after partner's answer I'll bid 7clubs if he has 2, 6C if
> he has 1 and 5C  if he has 0.
> I prefer to play 4D as kickback RKC, but 4C or 4N rkc or blk is also OK
> in this situation.
> I cannot imagine any other possible bid (maybe 6 clubs, if i'm not sure
> about wich is our rkc bid).
>

Pard's negative 3NT sounds like a minimum hand with Kxx- or KJx- in
spades, but that's actually fine here.  Like Laszlo, I would use
keycard or Gerber depending on what we have in place.  I would be
disappointed if we don't reach a good slam in clubs or NT.

I have a feeling 3S was not alerted splinter.

-Jerry Fusselman