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- BIDDING PRINCIPLES AFTER A 1NT OPENING
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- -- Jacoby followed by a jump raise to game in the indicated suit
- is a slam try, balanced hand, strong suit. Use Texas if not
- interested in slam. With a weakish suit, start with Stayman. With
- an unbalanced hand use Stayman, UHC, or jump immediately.
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- -- Notrumper cue bids do not apply when responder has shown a
- balanced hand. Cue bids opposite a balanced hand say, "Need help
- here."
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- -- Texas transfer applies in competition, but only through 3C.
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- -- When responder makes a transfer bid, then jumps in a new suit,
- the jump is a splinter bid--a slam try that implies a strong suit.
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- -- After a strong jump takeout response, 4NT by responder is Roman
- Key Card Blackwood. To make a natural 4NT raise, transfer and then
- bid 4NT.
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- -- After a splinter bid in support of a minor suit, 4NT by opener
- is natural, a sign-off, but 4NT by the splinter bidder is Roman Key
- Card Blackwood (Exclusion Blackwood, if 4NT immediately follows the
- splinter bid--see chapter BLACKWOOD in the book "Strong Bidding."
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- -- After a splinter bid in support of a major suit, 4NT by either
- partner is Roman Key Card Blackwood.
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- -- When a major suit has been agreed, explicitly or implicitly,
- 4NT is Blackwood.
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