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Pick A Slam - Without a known fit or when opponents' interfere with the 
auction, a jump bid of 5 Notrump may be 
used to ask partner to pick the best slam suit.    
          
            | 1C - 1S;2D - 5N;
 | (2D) - 3S - (4D) - 5N;
 |   |  Players 
        should be careful not to confuse Pick A Slam with the 
        Grand Slam Force convention. 
        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. |