[Cascade]

bid_em_up, on Jul 15 2009, 03:56 AM, said:

I think I told partner that I really liked my hand in support of spades, when I super accepted the transfer. Kinda silly for him to now be asking "how do you like your hand?" again, don't you think?

There is some variety in how different partnerships super-accept. In some this might not be so silly.

[Hanoi5]

I don't understand why it doesn't make sense as a trump askingn bid. The super-acceptance only shows 4-card support and a maximum HCP. Those trumps could be Kxxx or even worse.

If I held a heart void (or any void for that matter) I could just take the slow road and cue-bid at the 4 lvl, never asking for KC so that if partner doesn't ask I'll just continue cue-bidding hinting at this. It's true, the same could have been done here, I could have just asked for KC and go on to 6 if partner held 3 or 2+Q (but then missing the slam if partner held ♠AK and good clubs + the red Kings). So I felt 5♠ which asked for two of the missing high trumps was a nice way to get to a borderline slam (unfortunately partner had all three and that had not been discussed so he went creative himself).

It's sort of those game/slam jumps which sometimes catch the defense off-guard. You are usually sure the contract is on but it could go down if you give out too much information, so you just get there instead of going slow.

[jmcw]

5NT. Accepting and leaving options open for 7