Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Senior/Senior Reserve 18/8/15 Hand 12




Board 12
West Deals
N-S Vul
A 10 7 3
J
K Q J 10 6
A K 8
K
K 10 8 6 4 2
8 5
9 7 4 3
N
WE
S
J 8 2
A Q 9 7 5 3
9 3 2
6
Q 9 6 5 4
A 7 4
Q J 10 5 2
NS 7; NS 7; NS 7; EW 3; NS 1N; Par +2210

WestNorthEastSouth
Pass1 2 Dbl
4 4 PassPass
5 5 All pass


3 comments:

  1. South should bid 2S not X given 5 card suit and values. Should North do more, should south do more, or simply compliment EW on their pre-empting bidding?

    The 6C was led. How do u play spades? The 6C smelt like a singleton, and therefore east is something like 3=6=3=1. Declare laid down the Ace and wrapped the suit up for no losers.

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  2. Yes 2S is ok. You are a point short but you have some extra distribution including a secondary fit for opener.

    And yes, its a good principle if you are fearing a ruff to get out as many trumps as you can as soon as possible. So sA immediately is a good normal play on general principles.

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  3. yes, also a priori the Ace is best anyhow. But in this situation if u assume the club is a singleton then the known fixed cards are 7 for east and 9 for west, ie east has more vacant spaces than west so more likely to have spades. So playing the Ace is even better. If anyone is interested I use a little freeware software app called SuitPlay (just google it) which calculates the best lines for each combination and can also adjust for vacant spaces

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