How To Play Stayman

As a fellow bridge instructor, I really appreciate these videos. I have recommended your site to all of my students. Thanks for posting!

Funny story, Once I opened 1 NT with 2 4 card majors and like you said after partner's stayman bid I answered 2 hearts on which partner rebid 3 NT. Of course as you said, I inferred that partner had a 4 card spade suit and I corrected to 4 spades.

Partner then bid 5 hearts!!! After I recovered from my shock :) I had to wonder if they were cue bidding in support of spades since I have never seen or even heard of this bidding sequence. Then I remembered he was willing to have game played at 3NT, so how could they have a hand that is suddenly worth a slam try?

I eventually decided that they had made some kind of mistake and passed 5 hearts. It turned out that partner did have a heart fit but wanted to play in 3 NT because of his intermediaries and because at MP's he thought it was a good shot. So he bid a "PSYCHIC STAYMAN" to indicate a 4 card spade suit and discourage a spade lead from defenders (he had Kx in spades).

Being off an AK in a minor, with no way of getting rid of the cards and also QJxxx in trumps with divided AK between the hands I thought for sure that I was off at least 1. either QJ was falling doubleton or I was down.

So I went for the hero play and made the 5 heart contract with the only other option available, a "Devil's Coup" in trumps. This is the only time that I've been able to play make this play in over 10 years of playing.

You speak very fast please explain in slow

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Thanks explained very well

Pleeeease make a video about checkback Stayman too

Well, let`s hear...

One of my peeves is when partners think that they can skip the stayman steps because they "know" you've got game.

What do you think of using Gerber over stayman to show slam interest?

Thanks!

What system on bidding are you using Peter?

I think Board 1 belongs in 4H after finding a heart fit and then counting Dummy points. Please reply.

Is " she" single

Just tried discussing these bids the other day, but I forgotten them. So thanks for the refresher course.

ok never mind. 8 or more points should mention this up front ~!!

How many points do I need to bid 1no trump

Thanks for the lessons!

Excellant

Traduci

Using Stayman Convention. I use 2D to show both 4 card majors. 2H to show 4 hearts and less than 4 Spades, 2S to show 4 Spades and less than 4 Hearts and 2NT to show neither 4 Card Major.

Learning a lot from your clear instructions. Thank you.