{"id":277,"date":"2015-04-29T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:00:25","slug":"puppet-stayman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=277","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Stayman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What&#8217;s It All About, Alfie?<\/h1>\n<p>Puppet Stayman is designed to discover whether a NT opening bid includes a ________ card major.<\/p>\n<h1>Puppet Stayman over 2NT Opening<\/h1>\n<p>(Note, you also use this in auctions where the opener starts with 2C and rebids 2NT.)<\/p>\n<p>The Puppet Stayman inquiry bid is 3C (<strong>no alert required<\/strong>). \u00a0Opener&#8217;s responses are <strong>alertable<\/strong>, however:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3NT denies having a _____ card or longer major.<\/li>\n<li>3H or 3S shows a ______ card major.<\/li>\n<li>3D promises at least one _______ card major. \u00a0Responder&#8217;s continuations:\n<ul>\n<li>3H: \u00a0&#8220;I have 4 ________ and I don&#8217;t have 4 ________ .&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>3S: \u00a0&#8220;I have 4 ________ and I don&#8217;t have 4 ________ .&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>3NT: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a ______ card major, I was just looking for a 5-3 fit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>4C: \u00a0Gerber, usually denying having a ______ card major.<\/li>\n<li>4D: &#8220;I have ________ majors, you pick!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reason we use 3H, 3S, and 4D by the responder the way we do is to keep the NT opener as the declarer.<\/p>\n<h1>Puppet Stayman over 1NT Opening<\/h1>\n<h2>Basic<\/h2>\n<p>The easiest way to incorporate Puppet Stayman over 1NT is to make 3C your Puppet Stayman inquiry bid. \u00a0(This is <strong>alertable<\/strong>). \u00a0Responder needs to have a game forcing hand for this, ideally something like 4-3 in the majors. \u00a0Opener&#8217;s responses and responder&#8217;s continuations are exactly as above.<\/p>\n<h2>Advanced<\/h2>\n<p><em>(Included here for reference, but I\u00a0won&#8217;t go into detail on this in the lesson.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An alternative is to make your 2C response to 1NT into Puppet Stayman. \u00a0This can be a bit complicated, but it works like this. \u00a0After 1NT by opener, responder&#8217;s two level bids change somewhat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2C: Puppet Stayman inquiry bid.<\/li>\n<li>2D, 2H: Transfers<\/li>\n<li>2S: &#8220;Two Spades for Size&#8221; (<strong>alertable<\/strong>)\n<ul>\n<li>Responder has one of two types of hand:\n<ul>\n<li>Invitational in NT with no interest in a major suit fit.<\/li>\n<li>Minor suit bust hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Opener bids 2NT (<b>alertable<\/b>) with a minimum 1NT opener, 3C (<b>alertable<\/b>) with a maximum.\n<ul>\n<li>Responder passes the 2NT response with a hand that was inviting a NT game.<\/li>\n<li>Responder bids 3 of a minor over 2NT to show a bust hand with 6 cards in that minor. \u00a0This is to play.<\/li>\n<li>Responder passes the 3C response with a club bust.<\/li>\n<li>Responder bids 3D over 3C with a diamond bust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2NT (<strong>alertable<\/strong>): 4-4 in the majors, game forcing. \u00a0Opener places the contract.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the 2C inquiry, opener&#8217;s responses are a bit different from the basic version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2H and 2S promise 5 cards in that major.<\/li>\n<li>2D (<strong>alertable<\/strong>) denies a 5 card major but <em>may<\/em> contain a 4 card major. \u00a0Responder&#8217;s continuations:\n<ul>\n<li>2H, 2S (<strong>alertable<\/strong>): \u00a0&#8220;I have 4 cards in this major but not 4 in the other.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>2NT (<strong>alertable<\/strong>): \u00a0&#8220;I have 4-4 in the majors with game invitational values. \u00a0You place the contract!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Pass: \u00a0&#8220;I have a Garbage Stayman hand short in clubs and am trying to find a playable partial.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s It All About, Alfie? Puppet Stayman is designed to discover whether a NT opening bid includes a ________ card major. Puppet Stayman over 2NT Opening (Note, you also use this in auctions where the opener starts with 2C and&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?page_id=277\">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\/277"}],"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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"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=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}