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Partner's responses to the 4NT ace-asking bid are made in step-wise fashion: 5 ♣ to indicate 0 or 4 aces; 5 ♦ to indicate 1 ace; 5 ♥ to indicate 2 aces; 5 ♠ to indicate 3 aces; When responding, do not count a void as an ace. Generally, 4NT is ace-asking when your side has bid a suit. There are exceptions:
A relay bid requests partner to make a descriptive bid in response. The descriptive response can be natural (as in Stayman) or coded (as in Blackwood). A "marionette" bid is similar to a puppet bid except that it allows responses other than the cheapest bid with certain uncommon hand types.
The main disadvantage of both Blackwood and Gerber is that they give little information about voids, which can be as powerful as aces under certain circumstances. Cue bidding is designed to pass information on "first round control" i.e. an ace or a void. In the "Italian" system of slam cue-bidding, the cheapest suit is always bid first.
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This is similar to Blackwood but the ace-asking bid is 4 ♣ rather than 4NT. The responses are 4 ♦ for 0 or 4, 4 ♥ for 1, 4 ♠ for 2, and 4NT for 3. Similarly, a 5 ♣ bid following an ace-ask asks for kings. Gerber is a jump bid to 4 ♣ used after a notrump opening bid and on other occasions by partnership agreement.
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A mnemonic for the original (Roman) response structure to the Roman Key Card Blackwood convention. It represents "3 or 0" and "1 or 4", meaning that the lowest step response (5 ♣ ) to the 4NT key card asking bid shows responder has three or zero keycards and the next step (5 ♦ ) shows one or four.