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Bidding Quiz Standard
American bidding is assumed unless otherwise stated.
Hand A Hand B With Hand A it is
favourable vulnerability and
♠ - ♠ AK843
♥
10872 ♥ AJ With
Hand B ♠’s are agreed and partner asks for keycards
with
♦ 9 ♦ K104 RKCB. You respond 5♦ (1 or 4) and partner bids 5♠, what do
♣ QJ1087542 ♣ A43 you do?
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Dave’s Column Here is Dave’s first input, this time on bidding.
♣ QJ1087542 What do you do over
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Dave’s Column
answer Board
22 from Wednesday 24th
Dealer: ♠ Q109864 Book Bidding
East ♥ K94 West North East South(A)
E-W vul ♦ 1073 - - 2NT ? (1)
♣
9
(1) What did you bid
with this South hand A
♠ -
♥
10872
♦ 9 .
♣ QJ1087542
(1) What do you do when you hear an opponent open
with 2NT? Do you more or less crawl into a shell and wait until the bidding is
over? A theme that the author of this article has talked about in many places is
that you should be willing to bid over an opening 1NT bid if you have good
shape with a long suit or a hand with shape and two suits. Bidding against a
1NT opening does have a place in today’s competitive world.
But what about bidding over a 20-21 point 2NT?
South has a hand that would not expect to set
7NT if the opponents bid it. Given that E-W probably have at least a game, it
behooves South to bid something.
What should that something be? The author
suggests 4♣. This bid pushes E-W up to a level where they
do not have any of their normal conventional bids. As you can see, South can
take two ♥’s and six ♣’s so will go down only 300 points doubled.
Feel free to look at the E-W hands and see if
you can bid sensibly to the best contract after South’s 4♣ bid.
And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? Many
Souths did indeed bid 4♣ and the end
contract were: 6NT+1, 6NT= twice, 6♦=,
4NT+3, 4NT= and 6♥-1. I understand that the ridiculous 6♥ contract was when West bid 4♦ over the 4♣ overcall and East thought it was a transfer!
Dave’s 2nd
Column Here
is Dave’s second problem, on the play of the hand.
♠ KJ7 ♠ AQ98 - - - 1♣
♥ J8752 ♥
AQ3 3♦ 3♥ 5♦ 6♥
♦ - ♦ A2 all pass
♣
A10743 ♣ QJ95
You are North, declarer in 6♥. Playing MUD (Middle-Up-Down) leads East leads
the ♣2 to the ♣Q,
♣K and ♣A.
You lead the ♥2 to the ♥4,
♥A and ♥9.
How should you continue?
Dave’s
2nd Column answer Board 23 from Wednesday 24th
Dealer: ♠ KJ7 Book Bidding
South ♥ J8752 West North East South
Both vul ♦ - - - - 1♣
♣
A10743 3♦ (1) 3♥ 5♦ 6♥
all pass
♣ K86 ♣
2
♠ AQ98
♥
AQ3
♦ A2
♣ QJ95
Bidding can be awkward after an opponent’s
pre-empt. North does not have a huge hand, but with the ♦ void it is better for North to bid than to
pass (as Paul Q says – borrow a king from partner after a pre-emptive overcall).
When East jumped to 5♦, South was
confident that there would be no ♦
loser and bid the slam because of the fit in ♥’s and the extra strength.
Playing MUD (Middle-Up-Down) leads East led the
♣2 to the ♣Q,
♣K and ♣A.
North led the ♥2 to the ♥4,
♥A and ♥9.
How should declarer continue?
If ♥’s
are 3-2 you will be safe by continuing ♥’s
from dummy if West did not start with ♥K
doubleton (about which you can do nothing anyway). Is it likely that the ♥’s are 3-2? If you judge that West began with
six or seven ♦’s and three ♣’s then you might feel that the ♥9
is a singleton.
Note that West might have given North a tougher
time by playing low smoothly on the ♣Q
at trick one.
And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 6NT+1,
6♥=, 4♦*-3,
4♥+1, 5♣+1,
5♣=, 4♥=
and 5♥-1.
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One or 4 keycards? Board 12 from Monday 22nd
I was asked to write this one up, so here are my thoughts:
Dealer: ♠ AK843 West North(B) East South
both vul ♦ K104 pass 1♠ pass 2♠
♣ A43 pass 4♠ pass 4NT (1)
pass 5♦ (2) pass 5♠ (3)
♠ Q106 N ♠ J5 pass pass (4) pass
♥ 943 W E ♥ 8762
♠ 972
♥ KQ105
♦ AJ65
♣ 72
(1) Being maximum for his original bid, South decided to look for slam. A dubious decision.
(2) 1 or 4 keycards.
(3) Unsure if partner had one or four. I think that South could assume four as partner presumably has around 19 points and thus it is very unlikely (but just mathematically possible) that three keycards are missing. However, if partner understands RKCB properly then he will correct a 5♠ bid to 6♠ if he has four keycards.
(4)
What did you bid with this
North hand B in this week’s quiz? North
should correct to 6♠ here – he knows that partner was looking for slam and that his
