Tuesday, January 7, 2025

A hopeful jump to slam wins 13.3 IMP

In a Instant IMP tournament on BridgeBaseOnline, After partner responded One Spade to my One Diamond, RHO got frisky with FOUR CLUBS. My rushes of blood to the brain were operative and I deemed my AQx worthy of a raise to six. When I saw that declarer had merely JT98xx of trump, I needed the finesse. All was well when I could discard two losing diamonds on top HAQ after unblock of the HK. Making six for a reward of 13.3 crossIMP

E might have, given his diamond void, desperately tried to underlead his eight-bagger, AKxxxxxx. Partner, in with the Club Quack will give him his ruff for one down. Lucky for me, they were not upto this defence

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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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