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Bidding Quiz Standard American bidding is assumed unless otherwise stated.

Hand A Hand B What do you open in first seat with Hand A?

♠ Q83 ♠ 9632 With Hand B partner opens 1♦ and you bid 1♠. Partner

♥ Q10763 ♥ A10 then bids 2♠, what do you do?

♦ Q5 ♦ 53

♣ AQ4 ♣ AK832

Hand C With Hand C you open 1♦ and partner bids 1♠, what

do you bid?

♠ AJ7

♥ 85

♦ KQJ97

♣ QJ10

Bidding Sequence Quiz

D 1♣ pass 1♠ pass How many ♠’s does the 2♠ bid promise?

2♠ Is it always four or can it be just three?

Current club championship standings

	Gold Cup = Best 30	Silver Plate = Best 10	Bronze Medal = Best 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	1871.3 Janne Roos 1846.9 Paul Quodomine 1843.7 Hans Vikman	669.2 Janne Roos 654.6 Hans Vikman 640.1 Paul Quodomine 626.8 Tomas Wikman 622.1 Sally Watson 619.8 Lars Broman 615.9 Jean Wissing 609.5 Duplessy & Coutlet 597.8 Bengt Malgren 597.3 Jan v Koss	344.6 Janne Roos 337.6 Hans Vikman 329.6 Tomas Wikman 325.4 Sally Watson 323.4 Paul Quodomine 322.9 Lars Broman 320.3 Jean Wissing 319.5 Duplessy & Coutlet 316.0 Sigurd Zahl 314.2 Niels Krojhaard

Dave’s Column Board 22 from Wednesday 30^th June

Dealer: ♠ Q832 Book Bidding

East ♥ 6 West North East South

E-W vul ♦ K982 - - 1♣ pass

♣ KQJ8 1♥ dbl 2♥ 2♠

4♥ all pass

♠ 109 N ♠ KJ

♥ KQJ987 W E ♥ A543 North leads the ♣K. South follows and you

♦ 65 S ♦ AQ4 elect to play low. North continues with the ♣Q

♣ A107 ♣ 6543 which you win with the ♣A. You draw trumps

♠ A7654 in two rounds with North discarding an

♥ 102 encouraging ♠ on the second round of ♥’s.

♦ J1073 You exit with a ♣ hoping for a 3-3 break but

♣ 92 no luck. North wins the ♣J with South discarding

a low ♠. North exits with a low ♠ what now?

With two ♣ losers and a certain ♠ loser, you must assume that North has the ♦K to have any chance of making. Assuming that North has the ♦K along with the ♣KQJ already seen, North cannot have the ♠A if he passed initially. Unfortunately Dave put the hand in with East as the dealer and so the problem is probably void. The point is that North cannot have the ♠A if he has the ♦K as assumed or he would have opened and so you need to finesse the ♠J.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 3♥+1 twice, 3♥=, 4♥-1 and 5♥-2.

Dave’s 2^nd Column answer Board 23 from Wednesday 30^th June

Unfortunately the second Dave problem is also a bit of a non-event, this time because it’s an opening lead problem that assumes East is on lead – and he is not if South opens the bidding!

Dealer: ♠ A5 Book Bidding

South ♥ AJ982 West North East South(A)

both vul ♦ 83 - - - pass (1)

♣ K982 pass 1♥ pass 4♥ (2)

all pass

♠ J9762 N ♠ K104

♥ 4 W E ♥ K5 Table A

♦ A762 S ♦ KJ1094 West North East South(A)

♣ J105 ♣ 763 - - - 1♥ (1)

♠ Q83 pass 2NT (3) pass 4♥ (4)

♥ Q10763 all pass

♦ Q5

♣ AQ4

The Book article explains that the ‘eccentric’ lead of the ♦K defeats the contract. However, with West on lead a ♠ lead will probably defeat the contract on normal play.

What did you open with the South hand (A) in this week’s quiz? The book does not comment on South’s initial pass (1), but says that ‘the leap to game (2) suggests a decent hand’. I disagree both with this comment (this hand is far too good for this jump in my style) and the initial pass. At my table the bidding was as Table A, with (3) 2NT Jacoby and (4) 4♥ showing a minimal opener with no shortage.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? Everybody opened the South hand and everybody went one down in 4♥, except the pair that got a 1400 penalty for 5♦*-5.

Qui Culpa? Board 24 from Monday 28^th June

A hopeless 4♠ was reached at Table B, who was to blame or were both at fault?

Dealer: ♠ Q8 Table A

West ♥ QJ972 West North East(C) South

love vul ♦ A64 pass pass 1♦ pass

♣ 964 1♠ pass 1NT (1) pass

2NT pass 3NT all pass

♠ 9632 N ♠ AJ7

♥ A10 W E ♥ 85 Table B

♦ 53 S ♦ KQJ97 West(B) North East(C) South

♣ AK832 ♣ QJ10 pass pass 1♦ pass

♠ K1054 1♠ pass 2♠ (1) pass

♥ K643 4♠ (2) all pass

♦ 1082

♣ 75

Table A: (1) What did you bid with this East hand C in this week’s quiz? This 1NT bid is ‘obvious’(?) but I prefer the bid made at Table B

Table B: (1) This East’s bid of 2♠ is also my choice; Paul Quodomine (East here) and myself will both often raise with good three card support in this situation – this hand, with a weak doubleton ♥ suit, is typical.

(2) What did you bid with this West hand B in this week’s quiz? It’s 11 points with good top cards and probably worth an invite; this jump to 4♠ is preposterous of course. Now I said ‘probably’ worth an invite and the terrible ♠ suit may make one cautious and pass, which I would not argue with. But the point is that if you do think that this hand is worth an invite then you should bid 2NT – just in case partner has just thee ♠’s and prefers NoTrumps.

And what happened? 2♣+3, 2♥(N)-1, 3NT-1, 3♠-2 twice and 4♠-3 .The bottom lines:

- When opener opens a minor and then supports responder’s major, this does not guarantee four card support (sequence D).

No game contract makes on this deal with a combined 25 points – is it possible sensible to bid sensibly and stay out of game if N-S stay quiet? I think so, how about: 1♦ - 1♠ - 2♠ - pass, with West passing at (2) because of his miserable ♠ suit and miserable holding in partner’s first bid suit. However, this may be hind-site and I suspect that few will pass but invite with 2NT and then 3NT is probably unavoidable.

Bidding Quiz Answers

Hand A: 1♥. With a reasonable 5-card ♥ suit I can see no reason not to open.

Hand B: 2NT. You presumably want to invite game and this is the best invite. The alternative, because of the very poor ♠ suit and bad holding in partner’s suit, is to pass; but I don’t really expect many to do this.

Hand C: 2♠. With a weak doubleton ♥ and a decent 3 card ♠ holding, I prefer this to 1NT.

Bidding Sequence Quiz Answer

D 1♣ pass 1♠ pass 1♠ here is usually 4-card, but can be decent 3-card support,

2♠ typically with short weak ♥’s.