[luis]

I want to share a partnership arrangement that paid a lof of IMPs in a recent hand at BBO.
First we agreed to play Ghestem since showing specific two-suiters is better than showing one suit and another in terms of hand evaluation.
So when they open and we show a two suiter how do we use the remaining suit? We agreed that a bid in the remaining suit was going to be used to show values in that suit and a good raise of one of pd's suits.

Then this hand appeared:

North:
Void
AJxxx
AJx
KJTxx

South:
9xx
Kxxxx
KQxx
x

LHO opened 1s, North bid 2s showing hearts+clubs.
RHO bid 3s.
And applying the convention I bid 4d (values in diammonds plus support for hearts or clubs)

Now my pd has a "dream" hand. He cuebid 4s and I bid 5d showing a second diammond honor. He then bid 6h Wanting to play 7 if I had support for clubs. I passed and we collected 12 easy tricks +1430.

22HCP combined produced a slam swing just because we spent some time on the meaining of the remaining suit after Ghestem.

[Rado]

Hi Luis,
Congratulations on this well bidded Slam. This hand proves the statement that it's better to have some agrreemants than not to have:-)))))))

Just in case such specific 2 suited overcall not available then what about:
1Sp-2He-3Sp-4Di=Values+ fit
pass-4Sp.......and the same way to this lovely slam.

of course if the fit was in Cl then the natural approach might fail: let's give Psimilar hand:
S:xxx H:x D:KQxx C:Axxxx
now after
1Sp-2He-3Sp-DBL= responsive (no He fit, usefull values)
pass-? 4 or 5Cl? or maybe 4Sp ?

just another example how interesting the game of BRIDGE is

Best regards, Rado