Bridge For Dummies by Eddie Kantar

Author:Eddie Kantar
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Responding with a Jump Shift

When your partner opens the bidding and catches you with 17 or more HCP, not only is game a certainty, but slam is also a strong probability. To tell your partner the good news, you usually jump shift, responding one level higher than necessary in another suit. Your jump shift is a game force (neither player can pass until a game contract is reached). Indeed, you frequently wind up in a slam contract after a jump shift. (See Chapter 16 for more about slam bidding.)

The two most frequent reasons for jump shifting are

To show a hand with a strong five- or six-card suit with 17 or more HCP. (You can jump shift with 16 HCP if you have a seven-card suit.)

To show a hand with four- or five-card support for your partner’s suit, plus 17 or more SP.

Figure 11-22 shows you an example of a jump shift with a six-card suit.

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