[Bbradley62]

Is there somewhere I can read about continuations after Soloway Jump Shift? After partner cuebid his ♠A, I wanted to cuebid my ♦A, but the script said 3♦ would be a splinter in support of clubs. Should that be?

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[chasetb]

Karen Walker wrote a good article covering Strong Jump Shifts (link below). Based on the article, you can have 4 hand types, and one of them is 5+ H, 4+ C, 16+ HCP. This hand would bid 3♦ or 3♠ to show the shortness and ♣ support. Since you technically haven't agreed on a suit, you can't really cuebid your suit; GIB might have 4♦ as a cuebid establishing ♥, but I don't know. 3NT shows a balanced 17-19 hand with 5♥ (rarely 6), 3♥ shows a huge hand (slightly better than what you have) and 4♥ shows your hand pretty well. 2♠ doesn't promise a fit, it just shows the cheapest suit with a smattering of values.

http://home.comcast....bb/b_jshift.htm

[Bbradley62]

Thanks for the link. I'll have to read it at when I'm more awake. I see that the article was written 14 years ago and doesn't specifically mention "Soloway Jump Shifts"; I want to be sure that I understand what GIB does and expects.