Bidding After Preempt

Bidding After Preempt

Question:

Partner opens 3spades icon. What is your call with the following hand:

You selected Option true.

A
KJ42
AKQ84
KQ4?


Answer:

4spades icon. We aren't going to be able to take enough tricks in notrump. If your partner has something like spades iconKJ76432 without an outside ace, you will probably make 4spades icon (on a lucky day), but would not be able to make 3NT because you won't be able to get to partner's hand. Below is an example of two hands: 

 

You selected Option true.

KJ109432
Q65
3
87

You selected Option true.

A
KJ42
AKQ84
KQ4

We can see that 3NT will need some help, but 4spades icon is virtually cold.