Monday, February 23, 2009

Open Light for once. Partner puts you in slam.



Dlr: S
Vul:




AQ75

9

K42

AKQ64

























T2

AQJ3

A9653

T3


I opened ONE DIAMOND. Partner, ONE SPADE, moi ONE NOTRUMP, partner THREE CLUBS, moi THREE NOTRUMP, partner FOUR NOTRUMP which with this partner is not quantitative. FIVE HEARTS (better go down than breach Blackwood discipline. There are a lot of tombstones of partners who passed FOUR NOTRUMP Blackwood bids.) SIX NOTRUMP.

I await dummy with trepidation, C8 is led. Won in dummy.
After a brief survey, I take a hair raising finesse of HEART Queen. Which holds.
I cash Two more top clubs. They break. Better! We are up to Ten top tricks. I play D2 off the table. DT from righty (who is a King on BBO Online and a gentleman to boot). I duck this, win the heart return with the Ace, and test the diamonds (J87 on my left, QT on my right). Whew.

What was that? 12.6 ish percent? 3-2 diamonds , 3-3 clubs and H finesse?
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In these pages, I comment on hands from Bridge Base Online ACBL tourneys. I play in these with a variety of partners with different degrees of skill. I might present a hand or two from my collection of bridge books, every now and then. I am more interested in play and defense than in complex bidding systems, but I do follow the cut and thrust of Vanderbilt and World Championship Vugraph and try to keep abreast of expert practice in the obstructive and constructive bidding system department. I may also feature, newspaper-style, famous hands from important matches that I saw on Vugraph.

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