Sunday, 28 October 2012

Where do you end up playing?

It's been a hectic couple of weeks and my one attempt to go to the club resulted in my first ever experience of a "not enough players" scenario! I wrote a little match report about the county match the other week so thought I'd reproduce a couple of the more interesting hands here. Firstly a bidding problem: where does your system get you to on this pair of hands? North is opener as unfavourable vulnerability at teams.
North
K Q 9 7
A J 10 8 2
4
J 7 3
South
5 4
Q 6
A J 3
10 9 8 6 5 4
If you both pass West opens a weak no-trump (if North then overcalls an artificial 2 then assume East doubles showing values with some penalty interest). We lost this board in the County Match very comprehensively. A variety of -300,-130,-110 and -100 from all sides of the table.

1 comment:

  1. My (and any?) system gets me to 2 hearts, of course presuming no intervention from the opponents. In my view N has a clear opening bid (and I open conservatively), and then possible bidding sequences are: 1 heart - 1 NT - 2 hearts
    or 1 heart - 2 hearts.

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