[straube]

We play transfer advances. So we run across 2H (3D) P ?

and the question is what do 3H and 3S mean?

According to this (if I infer correctly)...

http://www.bridgeguy...ferAdvances.pdf

3H=spades
3S=clubs
4C=good diamond raise
4D=bad diamond raise

Which means we don't have a stopper-asking bid to get to 3N. This seems wrong to me.

Partner suggested

3H=spades
3S=cue bid

which I think is better, but I'm not so sure that

3H=cue bid
3S-spades

isn't better yet.

Does it make sense to play transfer advances against preempts? What do others do?

[RMB1]

I am no expert on these methods - but can't you play 3S = stopper ask or clubs ?

[Siegmund]

Hoping for some good answers in this thread... I've only just started playing transfer advances at the ONE-level with one of my partners, in part because there were so many choices to be made we were a little bit paralyzed deciding how to play them. (We wound up opting for the description in the recent Hughes book.)

[bluecalm]

3h =spades; 3s =transfer to nt, stopper ask, 4c = clubs and 4spades; this position is kinda easy and you can play anything at 4 level but if it goes : 1c 3h you now need a double as transfer to spades and 3s as stopper ask so to make up for lack of negative double 4m are useful as 6m-4S. Foe more see Martens' book on transfers which has many nice ideas for various situations

[awm]

Sam and I play transfers in these auctions. The 3♠ bid is either clubs or looking for a stopper. This doesn't really cost... most of the time I will actually have some clubs anyway (because the stopper-asking hand lacks a long major or big fit for partner)... and even if 3♠ was "definitely a real club suit" overcaller would try 3NT with a stopper much of the time anyway.

Hands that are actually willing to bid past 3NT to show clubs can always start with 3♠ and then bid on at next turn, with the inference that this is real clubs.