[ggwhiz]

Years ago, my teammates bid a grand as follws,

2C - 2D
2S - 4C (gerber)
4NT (Blackwood) - 5C (more Gerber)
6S (to play) - 7NT (hearing 5S as the more gerber response)

Had to finesses a king and play a stiff diamond towards the AKQT2, finessing the Jack fourth onside but it rolled.

One of them is a grand LM now and I get to remind her that she invented checkback blackwood.

[pooltuna]

ggwhiz, on Dec 30 2009, 10:59 AM, said:

Years ago, my teammates bid a grand as follws,

2C - 2D
2S - 4C (gerber)
4NT (Blackwood) - 5C (more Gerber)
6S (to play) - 7NT (hearing 5S as the more gerber response)

Had to finesses a king and play a stiff diamond towards the AKQT2, finessing the Jack fourth onside but it rolled.

One of them is a grand LM now and I get to remind her that she invented checkback blackwood.

good one

[babalu1997]

Phil, on Dec 23 2009, 05:03 PM, said:

chasetb, on Dec 23 2009, 04:12 PM, said:

Why not use 4♣ as Gerber to see how many Aces there are?  4NT shouldn't go down on a strong NT, and you have a better picture of the hands. 

Gerber! The focus of so many bridge jokes!

Its Palm Springs last week and I'm killing time before the 2nd session. So I see a local novice who's attending his first regional, so I ask, "any interesting hands"?

He says, yeah, you hold eight diamonds to the AKQ....

(I said, "hands with 8 baggers are usually interesting"....)

♠Ax♥Qx ♦AKQTxxxx ♣x

So you open 1♦ and hear 1♥ by pard.

(hmm...I said.....this is tough. I imagine 3N, 3♦, 2♠ and 3♣ might all get votes).

Nope, not my choice. I bid 4♣ !?

(wow, 4♣ - thats a splinter in support of hearts - that wouldn't occur to me)

We don't play splinters. (actually I'm not sure he knows what a splinter is). 4♣ is ALWAYS ace asking.

(auto-gerber - groan - who is teaching these people. But I admit - this might be a good hand for it)

So partner shows me two (nice) with 4♠ and I ask about kings with 4N (rolling auto gerber!). And partner shows me one king.

(too bad - if its the ♥K - great news - otherwise - not so great).

So he wonders how to bid the grand with ♠xxxx ♥AKxx ♦x ♣Axxx playing this system.

(I said the second session was starting. I didn't hand him my business card)

Phil, Phil,

you need a refresher course on conventions.

This is very frequently played in the main club.

this is a convention named "GERBER ANYTIME"

that means anytime you bid 4 clubs, that is gerber.

appears right next to stolen bid dble on profiles

[jikl]

WDNPG appeared on convention cards a lot when I used to play.

Sean