Thursday 6 August 2009

Stayman super accept

In a teams game, partnering terry Quested, after P, P all red I opened 1NT on:

Ax
K10xxx
Axx
KQx

In his No Trump Bidding book, Terry advocates super-accepting Stayman with a broken 5 card major and a maximum by a jump to 3 of the major. When RHO doubled Terry's 2C Stayman bid I naturally bid 3H, leading to 4H missed at the other table. My hand could not have been a more pure one for the treatment, especially with the double of 2C, and Terry's ultimate raise to 4H on 109xx, A9xxx, Qxx, x shows it off well. RHO erred slightly when he won the opening club lead with the Ace leading to an over-trick (giving me 2C winners instead of one) but 4 was always there.

You see, as arcane as most of it is, I have actually read Terry's NT bridge bidding book. SARS, Undefined Splinters, Quest Transfers/Relays ... they require a ream of memorized notes and are inappliccable to a simple club game. Some concepts like these Stayman super-accepts and transfer super-accepts, are quite useful a number of times.

Paul Quodomine

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