[runewell]

From the 10PM ACBL speedball tourney on 10/4/08 my partner picked up this unbelievable hand:

♠ AKT
♥ AK
♦ AKQ9
♣ AK94

30 high card points, to say nothing of the spots. I'd say you need to upgrade this to 31 How do you bid this?

Fortunately for us, my 2♦ response to 2♣shows values. However that only gave partner license to blast to 6NT, making 7 opposite

♠ QJxx
♥ xx
♦ Txxx
♣ Qxx

[bb79]

according to our simple bidding agreements:

2C - 2D - 5NT* - 7NT*

*31-32 balanced
*grand slam try

[jmc]

Is't it slightly better for partner to try 6c Gerber over 5NT so as to assure you are not off one Ace?

jmc

[jdonn]

Balanced hands this strong are absurdly impossible to bid accurately when things like xx xx Txxxxxx xx and xx xxx xx Txxxxx make a laydown 7NT. Even if partner denied values I would be very tempted to blast 6NT on my own.

[SoTired]

2C 2D 5N asking partner to bid 1 higher for each A, K, or Q partner holds.

4N/5N/6N are all the same in that regard.