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Do you want to bid more good slams, and fewer bad ones?

Everyone today plays Roman Keycard Blackwood -- or at least, they think they do. This fourth edition of the only comprehensive book on RKB covers not only the basics, but also the cutting-edge ideas that can improve your slam bidding dramatically. These include:

• Why you should play 1430 and 3014 RKB asks
• The important extensions of RKB: the Queen-Ask, the Specific King Ask, and Specific Suit Asks
• Responding to RKB with a void
• ELB -- asking for Keycards with a void
• RKB in notrump auctions
• RKB in minor-suit auctions

In this book, you'll find everything you need: clear explanations of the many aspects of Roman Keycard Blackwood with hundreds of carefully-annotated example hands and summaries at the end of each chapter. Finally, there is a set of 60 hands for you to bid with your favorite partner, then compare Eddie Kantar's suggested auctions to your own results.

Eddie Kantar is one of the world's most popular bridge writers; he is also the winner of two World Championships and a member of the Bridge Hall of Fame. He is a contributing editor for the ACBL Bulletin, The Bridge World, and Bridge Today, and writes regularly in magazines throughout the world. His most recent book is Kantar on Kontract.

'Everything you ever wanted to know about Roman Keycard and a lot you never thought about asking. Fascinating reading.'
- American Bridge Teachers Association Quarterly

'As the first edition was about to go to press 14 years ago, Kantar was constantly contacting the publisher with "just one more" addition or revision, and then one more, and another and another. A publisher's nightmare. Obviously the pattern has continued, as this fourth edition is more than double the length of the original. Kantar is a clear and comprehensive writer, and casual home players could find things of interest here. Still, it's basically for serious players.'
- The Denver Post

'Experts, potential experts and bidding fantasts will find much useful material, and many interesting angles on slam bidding.'
- Jon Sveindal, Norway

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