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Last Train Cuebid (Squeeze Bid) - After agreeing on a major suit
trump fit, a 4 level rebid beneath the agreed trump suit suggesting mild
slam interest with game-plus values. Implicitly, the Last Train cuebid
implies values insufficient to bid slam via Blackwood but more than
enough to signoff in game (thus lacking Ace controls).
A Bridge World survey showed a 75 percent consensus approving the Last Train
convention, with the following definition:
“Any time there is only
one call that indicates slam interest or further slam interest without
raising the partnership’s level of commitment, it is a Last Train slam-try,
unrelated to the strain named (unless followed by an uninvited further
action).”
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1H - 3H;
4C - 4D; |
4D suggests to
partner 3H was at the high range (perhaps a slight underbid), inviting partner to consider slam
exploration. |
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(1C) - 1H- (P) - 4C;
(P) - 4D |
4D implies opener
has extra values above game, asking responder to consider slam bidding
slam (4C is a splinter bid showing 4+ Hearts) |
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1S - 4D;
4H |
4H asks responder to
consider bidding slam with extra values (4D is a splinter bid showing 4+
Spades) |
Also
see books on
Slam and other slam conventions:
1430,
Baby Blackwood,
Blackwood, Controls,
Exclusion Blackwood/Voidwood,
Gerber,
Grand Slam Force,
Jacoby 2 Notrump,
Key Card Blackwood,
Kickback,
Last Train, NAMYATS,
Pick a Slam,
Quantitative Notrump Bid,
Rolling Blackwood,
Serious 3 Notrump,
Slam Try - Stayman,
Splinters,
Opener
Jump Shift,
Strong Jump Shift, and legacy treatments as
Roman Asking Bids,
Roman Blackwood,
Roman Gerber. Slam
treatments
also include interference of
an overcall by opponents, as
Negative Slam Double,
DOPI,
DEPO, ROPI.
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