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

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

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

Fri 24^th 1^st Bob & Dave 57% 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 4^th suit forcing?

1♥ pass 1♠

H 1♣ pass 1♦ pass What is 2♠ - natural or 4^th 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 20^th

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.