Club News Sheet – No. 238 www.pattayabridge.com 27^th May 2007

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Mon 21^st 1^st Alan & Terje 62% 2^nd Mike & Sid 60%

Wed 23^rd 1^st Bob & Jo 61% 2^nd Kevin & Noreen 60%

Fri 25^th 1^st Kevin & Noreen 63% 2^nd Bill & Frode = Janne & Jan 57%

Bidding Quiz Standard American is assumed unless otherwise stated.

Hand A Hand B With Hand A you open 1♦ and partner responds 2♣, what

do you bid?

♠ 3 ♠ AKJ984

♥ AQ ♥ K65 With Hand B you open 1♠ and partner bids 2NT (Natural -

♦ KQ7532 ♦ A7 11-12 points – you are not playing Jacoby 2NT). What do

♣ AJ102 ♣ 83 you bid?

Hand C Hand D With Hand C partner opens 1♦, what do you respond?

♠ AQ108 ♠ AK652 (a) With Hand D partner opens 1NT and you transfer with 2♥,

♥ KJ7 ♥ 1076 and partner bids 2♠. What do you bid now?

♦ A ♦ 6 (b) This time partner opens 1NT and there is a natural 2♦ overcall.

♣ K9873 ♣ QJ73 What do you bid now?

Hand E Hand F With Hand E partner opens 3♦, what do you bid?

♠ AQ94 ♠ J1097 With Hand F RHO opens 1♥ and you pass as does LHO.

♥ AKQJ2 ♥ KJ8 Partner overcalls 1♠ and …

♦ - ♦ AJ42 (a) RHO bids 2♥, what do you bid?

♣ KQ84 ♣ 108 (b) RHO bids 3♥, what do you bid?

Hand G Hand H With Hand G partner opens 1♠, what do you bid?

♠ Q63 ♠ AJ5

♥ J84 ♥ J7 With Hand H RHO opens a Multi 2♦, what do you bid?

♦ K1064 ♦ AQJ10

♣ KQ5 ♣ A854

Hand J Hand K With Hand J partner opens 1♠, what do you respond?

♠ KQ96 ♠ A With Hand K it’s unfavourable vulnerability. You open 1♥

♥ Q96 ♥ AQ106432 and this is passed round to RHO who overcalls 1♠.

♦ 3 ♦ 985 What do you do?

♣ A10863 ♣ Q7

Bidding Sequences Quiz All of these sequences occurred this week

L 2♦ pass 2NT pass 2♦ is weak, (a) what is 2NT?

3♥ (b) what is the 3♥ response?

M 2♦ 2NT 2♦ is the infamous Multi 2♦, what is the 2NT overcall?

N 2♦ dbl 2♦ is the infamous Multi 2♦, what is the double?

P 1♠ pass 4♠ What is 4♠? - is it game values with 3-4 ♠’s or a pre-emptive bid?

Q 1NT dbl 2♣ What is 2♣? – Stayman or a ♣ suit?

R 3♦ pass 3♥ 3♦ is weak; is 3♥ weak, invitational or forcing?

S 1♠ pass 2NT pass This pair do not play the Jacoby 2NT, so 2NT is 11-12 points;

3♠ is 3♠ weak, invitational or forcing?

T 1♦ pass 2♣ pass Is 2♠ forcing or not?

2♠

U 1♦ pass 2♣ pass Is 3♠ a strong ♠ hand or a splinter showing ♠ shortage

3♠ and ♣ support?

V 1♥ pass pass 1♠ What is double? – take-out, penalty, ‘optional’ or ‘up to you’?

2♥ dbl

W 1♣ 1♠ pass 1NT How many points is 1NT – is it 6-9 as opposite an opener?

Late Arriver

The Pattaya Bridge Club starts at 1.00 p.m. sharp. It is, in my opinion, bad manners and rude to make a point of continually turning up late. Dave simply calls it arrogant. Dave and I will not change a movement for perpetual late arrivers and they will be turned away if we have an unsuitable number. Fortunately we now only have just one of these individuals and he only plays sporadically. If he turns up late again he will only get a game if the numbers are convenient. No excuses will be accepted from this individual.

The Club Championships

Nobody has yet qualified (30 results) for the Gold cup but Janne and Dave are nearly there; the top 6 for the silver and bronze competitions are currently: -

Silver plate = Best 10 Bronze medal = Best 5

650.4 Janne Roos 337.3 Janne Roos

634.5 Lars Gustaffson 336.2 Bengt Malmgren

627.1 Gunnar Barthel 332.9 Paul Savelkral

626.7 Bengt Malmgren 325.6 Gunnar Barthel

625.8 Paul Savelkral 325.6 Lars Gustafsson

619.5 Dave Cutler 322.9 Dave Cutler

Everybody had trouble Board 16 from Wednesday 23^rd

Every East appears to have had trouble on this deal when their partner opened with a pre-empt. Basically, it’s very simple; a new suit over partner’s pre-empt (two or 3 level) is strong and forcing.

Dealer: ♠ K108 Table A

West ♥ 108743 West North East(E) South

E-W vul ♦ QJ2 3♦ pass 3NT (1) all pass

♣ 93

♠ 763 N ♠ AQ94 ‘Expert’ Table

♥ 965 W E ♥ AKQJ2 West North East(E) South

♦ AK109754 S ♦ - 3♦ pass 3♥ (1) pass

♣ - ♣ KQ84 4♥ (2) pass pass (3) pass

♠ J52

♥ -

♦ 863

♣ AJ107652

Table A: (1) What did you bid with this East hand E in this week’s quiz? Most East’s bid a hopeful 3NT because they hand no idea if partner had ♥’s and were afraid that a 3♥ bid would be passed out.

‘Expert’ (1) Actually there is no fear of 3♥ being passed out, it’s forcing; and so 3♥ is the

Table: answer to question E (sequence R).

(2) West likes ♥’s, and if he had an outside feature (an ace or king) he should bid it (that implies ♥ support). If West did not like ♥’s he should retreat into 4♦. With no outside feature (bidding a void is misleading) this West simply raises ♥’s.

(3) East has a nice hand but searching for slam is surely too optimistic opposite a pre-empt.

And what happened? Nobody, out of 5 tables, bid 4♥ which is a good contract despite the 5-0 break. 5♦ or 6♦ are probably equally good contracts but nobody reached them either. 4 out of 5 pairs landed in the poor 3NT; it should probably go down (one did) but one made exactly and two made with an overtrick. The 5^th pair were in 6♥ -1.

The bottom Lines.

- A new suit over partner’s pre-empt is strong and forcing.

- This really is quite logical – there is no need to ‘rescue’ partner when he has a long suit.

- If opener has support for partner’s suit then he should cue bid an ace or king (not in his pre-empt suit). With no such feature he should simply raise partner (as in this example) and without support for partner he should retreat into his pre-empt suit.

- 3NT is not usually a good contract when you have a void in partner’s pre-empt suit (you may well have no entry to his hand).

- Had West bid 4♦ at (2) – so denying ♥