Source: Bridge Teaching por Kitty Cooper
I. Controls plus Tricks can produce slam on less than 33 points
Point count is not very accurate with unbalanced hands that have a good fit. Tricks and controls, or controls with distribution and lots of trump are the hand types that make slam easily with less than 33 points. Here are the two hands from the post on slam bidding repeated to illustrate this point. Notice how the well-placed shortness makes slam on both of them.
| West | East | West | East | |
 AJ3 |
KQ10987 |
AJ987 |
KQ1065 |
|
 KQJ1085 |
A97 |
4 |
A9854 |
|
 A3 |
965 |
A7652 |
5 |
|
 85 |
6 |
A7 |
63 |
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