Club News Sheet – No. 252    www.pattayabridge.com        2nd Sept 2007

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Mon 27th          1st  Sean B & Bengt                   68%         2nd  Dave & Lewis                      59%

Wed 29th          1st Dave Cutler                          60%         2nd Bengt & Jan                         57%

Fri  31st            1st  Alan & Lewis                       62%         2nd  Paul Sc.. & Ivy                     55%

 

Bidding Quiz                           Standard American is assumed unless otherwise stated.

 

Hand A           Hand B           With Hand RHO opens 1♠, what do you bid?

 

♠ AKQ            ♠ 76                 With Hand B partner opens 1♠, what do you bid when: - 

♥ J985             ♥ K1032          (a)  RHO doubles?

♦ A97             ♦ KQJ8            (b)  RHO passes?

♣ 765              ♣ Q92

                       

Hand C           Hand D           With Hand C it’s unfavoureable vulnerability. RHO opens 2♠

and this is passed round to partner who doubles. What do you do?

♠ J9876           ♠ J10984

♥ 102               ♥ A                 

♦ 9852            ♦ 652               With Hand D you open 1♠ and LHO doubles. Partner redoubles

♣ J3                 ♣ AKJ8           and RHO bids 2♥, What do you do?

 

 

Bidding Sequences Quiz        All of these sequences occurred this week

       

E      1♠      dbl     redbl  2♥      What is opener’s pass, is it forcing?

pass                                    

 

The Club Championships       The current standings are: -

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

 

1820.8  Jan v Koss                  666.8  Janne Roos                    350.4  Janne Roos

1816.8  Janne Roos                  654.4  Jan v Koss                    340.2  Jan v Koss

1800.8  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             330.0  Dave Cutler

Editorial

1.      This news-sheet is mainly my writings but input from members is welcome. If anybody disagrees with me they are more than welcome to submit something for me to include. I have done this for both Hans and Chuck in the past.

2.      I am doing my best about the temperature in the coffee shop. Here is the e-mail response I recently got from the Tropicana management: -

“Hi Terry, Please be reassured that I am doing everything to have the A/C installed.  It is not only you that are complaining, but also other hotel guests.  Just to keep you posted on the progress, the contractor has installed some of the controls and electrical connections.  We are now waiting for the actual installation of the A/C unit.  From my understanding, the lead time is about 30 days (since this unit is fairly large – 300,000 BTU), therefore we are looking around the first to second week of September for the installation.  I will inform you when that occurs since there will be no A/C in the coffee shop at all and I would have to move you up to the conference room.”

 

 

Don’t bid your hand twice                                    Board 18 from Monday 27th

     

North made the perfect bid at his first turn and had pushed the opponents into a hopeless game – but he then blew it by bidding again!

 

Dealer:             ♠ K987                                         West          North         East          South

East                  ♥ K9                                              -                 -               1♦            2♠    (1)

N-S vul            ♦ KQ62                                        dbl (2)       3♠    (3)      4♥    (4)    pass

                        ♣ Q4                                             pass           4♠    (5)      dbl           all pass

 

♠ A2                     N             ♠ Q                    (1)  Weak

♥ Q1062           W    E          ♥ A854              (2)  Negative, a bit light since it forces partner to

♦ 873                    S             ♦ AJ1094                 bid at the three level – but South’s bid has

♣ 9753                                  ♣ KJ10                    made it awkward for West

                        ♠ J106543                               (3)  Excellent – raise partner’s pre-empt to the

♥ J73                                             limit of the Law.

♦ 5                                           (4)  And now East is fixed – he knows there’s a

♣ A86                                            4-4 ♥ fit but has no idea if there are values for game. He eventually decided to bid the doubtful game.

(5)  But North blew it by bidding again. Deep finesse says that 4♥ goes down but 800 was far too costly either way.

 

And what happened? 4♠* by South went for 800 to E-W. Nobody else bid 4♥ but one South scored 670 when 2♠ was doubled and made an overtrick.

The bottom lines: -

-         Don’t bid your hand twice.

-         Raise partner’s pre-empt to the limit of the Law and then do not bid again; and when you decide how high to go, look at the vulnerability.

A  poor double                                                      Board 14 from Monday 27th

     

N-S gave 800 away on this deal for the usual reason – doubling with a flat hand.

 

Dealer:             ♠ AKQ                                          Table A

East                  ♥ J985                                           West(B)     North(A)    East(D)      South

Love all            ♦ A97                                            -                 -                 pass           pass

                        ♣ 765                                            1♠              dbl   (1)      redbl  (2)    2♥

pass (3)      pass