{"id":268,"date":"2015-04-16T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2015-04-16T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:00:55","slug":"splinter-bids-answers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"Splinter Bids &#8211; Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reference: \u00a025 Bridge Conventions You Should Know<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a title=\"Slam Bidding Process: Answers\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=57\">earlier lesson on slam bidding<\/a>\u00a0I presented the idea that successful slams require controls and a source of tricks. \u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes you get both when you have shortness in a side suit and a fair number of trumps. \u00a0For example, suppose you have a side suit with Axxx in your hand and a small singleton in a dummy that has 4 trumps. \u00a0In No-trump this suit produces only one trick but in a suit contract you get 4 tricks: \u00a0the Ace and 3 ruffs. \u00a0Dummy&#8217;s singleton in this suit produces second round control and the good trump fit produces the extra tricks. \u00a0Being able to identify situations like this during the auction can allow you to get to good slams lacking the usual 33 points. \u00a0This is why the splinter bid was invented.<\/p>\n<h1>Details<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>A splinter bid is a bid showing:\n<ul>\n<li>a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">singleton<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0or a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">void<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in a hand<\/li>\n<li>with <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">four<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0or more trumps and<\/li>\n<li>values for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>game<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Usually, a splinter is shown by a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">double\u00a0jump\u00a0&#8211; shift<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in a side suit.\n<ul>\n<li>This bid isn&#8217;t used for anything else.<\/li>\n<li>The bid takes a lot of bidding room, so it needs to be very descriptive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Example Sequences<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After an opening bid of 1H, responder can bid 3S as a spade splinter, 4C as a club splinter, or 4D as a diamond splinter.<\/li>\n<li>After an opening bid of 1S, responder can bid \u00a04C as a club splinter, 4D as a diamond splinter, or 4H as a heart splinter.\n<ul>\n<li>With S KQxxx H Axx D x C Kxxx, after your partner opens 1S you respond <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4D<\/span><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Responder Splinters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After a major suit opening, responder should have <strong>13<\/strong>\u00a0to <strong>15<\/strong>\u00a0points, including distribution.<\/li>\n<li>With more than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>15<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0points start out by responding with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jacoby 2NT<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Opener Continuations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Opener should reevaluate her hand, focusing on the splinter suit.\n<ul>\n<li>Good holdings in the splinter suit:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Axx(x)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>xx(xx)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bad holding in the splinter suit:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KQx<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0because this has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>wasted<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>values<\/strong><\/span> .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With a minimum hand, opener should just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>bid\u00a0game<\/strong><\/span> .<\/li>\n<li>With wastage in the splinter suit, opener should just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>bid\u00a0game<\/strong><\/span> .<\/li>\n<li>With slam interest, opener can either\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cue\u00a0bid<\/strong><\/span> cheapest control; or<\/li>\n<li>Ask for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>keycards<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Opener Splinters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Opener&#8217;s splinter requires <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>19<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0points, because responder might only have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0points and opener is forcing the auction to game.<\/li>\n<li>Opener splinters using a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>double\u00a0jump-shift<\/strong><\/span>, just like responder.\n<ul>\n<li>Example: \u00a0you open 1C and partner responds 1S. \u00a0You can splinter with 18 points and a singleton diamond by bidding <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>4D<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Continuations<\/h3>\n<p>As above, responder evaluates her hand and determines if slam seems likely.<\/p>\n<h2>Singleton Honor<\/h2>\n<p>Avoid making a splinter with a singleton <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ace<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>King<\/strong><\/span>, because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partner will misevaluate a holding like KQxx if your singleton is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ace<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Partner is expecting your values to be outside of the splinter suit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference: \u00a025 Bridge Conventions You Should Know Introduction In an\u00a0earlier lesson on slam bidding\u00a0I presented the idea that successful slams require controls and a source of tricks. \u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes you get both when you have shortness in a side suit&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=268\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}