Club News Sheet – No. 251    www.pattayabridge.com        26th Aug 2007

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Mon 20th          1st  Phil & Tomas                       60%         2nd Bengt & Jan                          59%

Wed 22nd         1st Phil & Tomas                       642nd        2nd Lewis & Terry                      60%

Fri  24th            1st  Bob & Dave                         57%         2nd  Lewis & Alan                       55%

 

Bidding Quiz                           Standard American is assumed unless otherwise stated.

 

Hand A           Hand B           With Hand A partner bids 1NT, what do you bid?

                       

♠ KQ7             ♠ J2                 With Hand B you are in 2nd seat, love all, what do you open?

♥ A953            ♥ 4                  

♦ K3               ♦ AK10876532                            

♣ AQJ6           ♣ Q

                       

Hand C           Hand D           With Hand C you are dealer at favourable vulnerability. What,

if anything, do you open?

♠ 9                   ♠ 76                        

♥ J108642       ♥ A108            With Hand D partner opens 1♣ and you bid 1♦. Partner then

♦ A1054         ♦ AQ632         bids 1♥, what do you bid?

♣ 52                ♣ KQ9

 

Hand E            Hand F            With Hand E RHO opens 1♥. (a) What do you bid, and

(b) What do you intend to do later?

♠ J10942         ♠ AKJ4           

♥ -                   ♥ J763             With Hand F you open 1♣ and partner bids 1♦. You bid 1♥

♦ AQJ1062     ♦ 94                 and partner jumps to 2♠ - what do you bid?

♣ J2                 ♣ A76

 

Bidding Sequences Quiz        All of these sequences occurred this week

       

G     1♣     pass   1♦      pass       What is 1♠ - natural or 4th suit forcing?

1♥      pass   1♠                                                 

H     1♣     pass   1♦      pass       What is 2♠ - natural or 4th suit forcing?

1♥      pass   2♠

The Club Championships       The current standings are: -

Gold Cup = Best 30                 Silver plate = Best 10      Bronze medal = Best 5

 

1816.8  Janne Roos                  666.8  Janne Roos                    350.4  Janne Roos

1815.9  Jan v Koss                  654.4  Jan v Koss                    340.2  Jan v Koss

1794.9  Dave Cutler                 640.0  Dave Cutler                   336.2  Bengt Malmgren

1736.1  Bob Pelletier                634.9  Paul Savelkral                332.9  Paul Savelkral

634.5  Lars Gustaffson             328.0  Dave Cutler

Walking the dog?                                                 Board 1 from Monday 20th

     

An American term for making a seemingly silly bid in the hope of being doubled there.

 

Dealer:             ♠ AQ43                                         Table A

North               ♥ K9652                                        West          North         East(B)       South

Love all            ♦ -                                                  -                 pass           1♦    (1)      1♥

                        ♣ 9654                                          pass           4♥              pass (2)      pass

pass

♠ 875                    N             ♠ J2                        

♥ 103                 W    E          ♥ 4                           Table B

♦ J4                      S              ♦ AK10876532       West          North         East(B)       South

♣ AJ10832                            ♣ Q                         -                 pass           pass (1)      1♥

                        ♠ K1096                                        pass           2♦    (3)      5♦    (4)      dbl   (5)

♥ AQJ87                                       pass           5♥    (6)      all pass

♦ Q9                                             

♣ K7                                            

 

Table A:     (1)  What did you open with this East hand B in this week’s quiz? 1♦? 2♦? 3♦? 4♦? 5♦ or a gambling 3NT? I don’t like 4♦ or 5♦ as that rules out 3NT if partner has a few bits and pieces. It’s a bit good for 3♦ and much too good for 2♦. A gambling 3NT is reasonable but the suit is not really solid. So it appears that only 1♦ is left; the hand is 21 for the rule of 20 and so this East opened a very reasonable 1♦.

(2)  But with probably 9 tricks in offence and likely zero in defence this is a very poor pass, 5♦ is called for.

Table B:     (1)  This East took a very interesting view with hand B, and I certainly would not argue with this initial pass and come in later!

(3)  2-way reverse Drury – showing a sound raise to 3♥ (or better) with 4 ♥’s.

(4)  And now East shows his hand, interesting bidding Bob. Walking the dog?

(5)  South really has to do something with his 15 points – he cannot imagine that North has such a superb fit (or East such great ♦’s) and dbl is clearly called for.

(6)  But luckily for South, North (me) did not like to defend and I thought that there was something fishy (doggy?) about East’s bid – I’ve played against Bob before.

 

And what happened? 4