[blml] No ogre meant

[David Burn]

[RH]

The bidding has gone:

WEST      NORTH     EAST      SOUTH
Pass      Pass      3NT       Pass
4C(1)     Pass      ?

(1) No agreement

[HdW]

I am happy now to not have stuck my neck out and presume what I thought it
was (run-off to one of the minors over a gambling 3NT). So, since presumably
a 5-card is mentioned both in Stayman and Gerber, we bid 4Sp.

[DALB]

No, Herman. Gerber is a convention that asks for aces; one does not mention
a five-card spade suit in reply to 4C unless one has two aces, just as one
does not mention a five-card spade suit in response to Blackwood unless one
has three aces.

Did we have some agreement about the meaning of an opening bid of 3NT?

David Burn
London, England