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Week 0242 : 10th February 2025

CUE BID

This is a bid of a suit with no intention that the bid suit should be the trump suit. The term covers several quite different situations.

1. In a slam investigation, when the partnership has agreed a trump suit (either explicitly or implicitly), the cue bid of a suit shows a control in that suit. By agreement this may be first-round control (an ace or void), or either first- or second-round control. To avoid confusion with the other types of cue bid, some call this a control-showing cue bid.

After East’s 3♠ raise sets spades as trumps, West’s 4♣ and East’s 4 are both (control-showing) cue bids. 4♣ must show interest in a slam because, with no such interest, West would simply raise 3♠ to 4♠.

2. In a contested auction, a bid of the opponents’ suit is called a cue bid: it may be a general forcing bid (when no suitable alternative is available) or have a conventional meaning.

Popular nowadays is for East’s 3♣ cue bid in the first sequence to show a value raise to at least 3. The older treatment is to play it as asking for either a full or half a club stopper.

In the second sequence, where partner’s action is an overcall, it is almost universal to play the 3♣ cue bid as showing a sound (heart) raise, also known as an Unassuming Cue Bid.

3. A direct overcall in the suit an opponent has opened conveys the message of a very powerful hand or, more popularly, some form of two- suited hand.

The popular Michaels convention and the rarer Ghestem convention both use this type of cue bid to show a two-suited hand.

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