[mikeh]

I confess that I don't understand the methods said to be in use. Are we to assume that responder can never find a club fit with 5=5 major and clubs with less than slam going values? Seems insane to me: we have to either suppress the club suit and commit to a 5-2 heart fit, with perhaps dubious trump, or suppress the club suit and offer 3N, when the opps may be running a side suit with us cold for 5♣. Imagine opener's hand opposite say Kx KQxxx x Jxxxx: do we have any method of finding the cold 5♣as opposed to the hopeless 3N? And finding hearts 4-2 with the Ace over the KQ makes 4♥ hopeless as well.

Make it Kx AQxxx x Jxxxx and now I'd rather be in a club slam than 3N, yet responder's hand is by no means a slam try opposite the vast majority of opening 1N hands.

Having got the rant off my chest, I bid 6♣ since I cannot construct a 'slammish' hand on which we don't have play, and most of the ones that sprang to mind are close to frigid.

[the hog]

paulg, on 2013-April-24, 11:26, said:

I move when partner is making slam tries and I hold AKQ in his suit.

That sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

[PhilKing]

4♥ shows, of all things, a hand that wants to play in 4♥. Yes, partner has to have at least a mild slam try, otherwise he would just have insisted on heart, but he can be turned off by spade values. What about?

♠-
♥AKJxxx
♦Qx
♣JT9xx

He might have the same hand with the diamond king instead, so I bid 4NT, DI for clubs. If you don't play that, obviously you should bid 4♠ to beg for a diamond control.

[Zelandakh]

I think the obvious bid here is 4♠, which must surely show further interest, really good spades (and clubs) and no diamond control within the context of the methods employed.

[Cyberyeti]

Zelandakh, on 2013-April-25, 02:16, said:

I think the obvious bid here is 4♠, which must surely show further interest, really good spades (and clubs) and no diamond control within the context of the methods employed.

This was my feeling too