[jillybean]

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Unpopular opinion (apparently): Super-accepting with 4-card support and a max is just standard bridge.

No more of this "what if partner wanted to sign off in 2♠" nonsense.
Live a little! Bid the 3-level. Your partner will survive the shock.

For those wisely avoid 4333 hands

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[mike777]

Think about not super accepting vul at MP.

[Cyberyeti]

2NT for us, 4333 superaccept

[jillybean]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-November-03, 09:17, said:

2NT for us, 4333 superaccept

2nt shows 4 card support, 4333?

[jillybean]

https://bridgeworld....accept-question

[Cyberyeti]

jillybean, on 2026-November-03, 09:37, said:

2nt shows 4 card support, 4333?

for us yes, that knowledge can be useful to partner when considering a slam, we break to a side 4 card suit otherwise

[akwoo]

4333 hands have 3 cards in each suit.

(But that's a control rich maximum 4333 hand - I might make an exception for it.)

[mikeh]

It is increasingly common in expert circles to use secondary transfers after one’s initial transfer to a major, but these don’t work well unless one takes invitational spade hands out of 2H. So 2H is either game force or less than invitational. This means that there is little benefit to playing super over 2H. Responder is not going to go to game unless he was already intending to force to game and, at mps, getting to 3S when responder is very weak isn’t usually going to end well. So we require a truly great hand to super accept, and it won’t be 4333.

We deal with invitational spade hands by using 2C. In my main partnership we have a complex set of agreements but in the other partnership in which I play this we have a simple method. 1N 2C 2D 2S is invitational with 5 spades. 1N 2C 2H 2S same thing

Fwiw, in my main partnership:

1N 2C 2D, we use 2H as a transfer and 2S shows a 2N invite, with 2N and 3C as gf transfers to a 5+ minor

1N 2C 2H denies spades for us. Now 2S is all invitational hands, including a heart raise, and 2N/3C are transfers.

[DavidKok]

I prefer for 2NT to show a maximum with 4(+)-card support, whereas 3M shows a minimum with 4(+)-card support. I think it is better to conceal shape - we are almost always just heading for game, and leaking information to the opponents outweighs the benefits of finding the slams that we wouldn't have been able to find normally. Besides, 2NT is plenty low (and 3M is weaker so lower chance of slam), we can break into our slam investigation cheaply.
There are also methods out there where a superaccept change of suit, such as 1NT-2♥; 3♣!, shows a superaccept in spades with an empty doubleton in clubs. I think this agreement is ever so slightly worse than the other shape-sharing methods on this auction, by leaking even more valuable information (especially if a 2NT or 3M bid is properly explained, including negative inferences).

[akwoo]

As a general rule, for various game tries by likely eventual declarer, I prefer methods that show values in a suit rather than weakness, because showing values tells opponents what not to lead, whereas weakness tells opponents what to lead. Telling opponents what not to lead is less info.

[awm]

mikeh, on 2026-November-03, 11:45, said:

It is increasingly common in expert circles to use secondary transfers after one’s initial transfer to a major, but these don’t work well unless one takes invitational spade hands out of 2H. So 2H is either game force or less than invitational. This means that there is little benefit to playing super over 2H.

While I agree with the first and second sentence, I don't think the third follows. The point of super-accepts isn't to get to game when partner is inviting -- you can always bid game after partner invites. The super-accept is to reach game when partner has LESS than an invite but the hands fit well. It also helps when you have a marginal slam hand (that might just offer choice of games but is worth bidding on after partner shows the big fit). So all the hands where the super-accept helps are still in your 2♥ transfer!

[mw64ahw]

Another version
2♠/3♣ 4+ max
2N Hxx with at least QJx in other suits
other 4+ min with values or doubleton according to taste