Conventions : Roman Key Card Blackwood

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From: Red Varth
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1985 22:10

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I am not as good a bridge player as my regular partner is, but it's my 
opinion that RKCB is much superior to regular Blackwood. In RKCB, 4NT
asks for Aces, just like regular except that the KING of the agreed-on
trump suit counts as an ace also. Therefore there are 5 aces in the deck.

Responses:	5C	0 or 3 aces
		5D	1 or 4 aces
		5H	2 without the trump QUEEN
		5S	2 with the trump queen

This allows you to get some idea of the quality of your trump suit before you
go trotting off to slam. All the outside winners in the world won't do you any
good if you're off the top trumps (lucky splits aside, that is).

The worst problem with this system is deciding what the trump-suit
is. What we decided on was that any major suit bid and raised was the trump 
suit in question. When we have a minor suit fit, we try to look for NT games 
or slams. In the event that we don't have a suit stopped in NT, any minor 
suit bid past 3NT is the key suit. In addition, no artificial bid can be the
trump suit.

Comments anyone? And, partner, since I know you're out there, please don't
get nasty about errors in public, ok?

				Red

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