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Q:
North is dealer. How do you get to 6♣?
North
♠ A K Q 8 5 3
♥ J
♦ 9
♣ K Q 9 7 5
South
♠ 6
♥ Q 7 5 3 2
♦ A K 7
♣ A 10 8 3
A:
North’s plan at the beginning of the auction is to get a raise from partner, keycard and hopefully bid slam. Norths plan is to open 1♠, rebid 3♣ and without a raise of either, jump to 4♠. Usually, opener rebids their 6-card major at the second turn, but with 6-5, opener needs to get the second suit in at a low level to be able to accurately describe the wildly distributional hand.
North is pleasantly surprised when South raises 3♣ to 4♣. Now North can use redwood, also called one over, to ask for aces. This is a perfect example of why another method other than 4NT as Keycard for the minor suits is needed. Neither North nor South can handle a response of 1 keycard because the signoff suit is clubs. Using 4♦ (one over) to ask for keycards, signing off in 5♣ is still available.
The entire auction would be as follows:
North South
1♠ 2♥*
3♣ 4♣
4♦** 4NT***
6♣ AP
* 2/1 GF
** Redwood (RKC BW for Clubs)
*** 2 keycards without the ♣Q
One response to “Wild 6-5 Q & A”
Redwood is a Blackwood convention used over the minors in the place of minorwood. The big plus to redwood is that you never get confused when four of your minor is natural or Blackwood. Check it out!
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