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 Another hand from Italy by Mike |
| Our third hand from the 2009 bridge holiday to Riccione comes from the second evening of the pairs competition : Board 14. Dealer East. Love All. 10952 K AK842 K54 8643 AQJ7 A865 2 Q765 J10 J Q109762 K QJ109743 93 A83 Would you open the bidding as East ? Yes, I think so. You only have ten high card points but the 6-4 shape is attractive.and the hand fulfills the Rule of 20 - add your high card points to the length of your two longest suits and if the total is 20 or more, you have an opening bid. East did open 1C and South decided on a preemptive 3H overcall. West passed and North bid a sporting 4H. West was happy to lead his singleton jack of clubs. South wrapped up ten tricks in no time. He won trick 1 in hand with the ace of clubs and led the three of hearts, West winning with the ace. East won the spade switch with the ace and returned the queen of clubs. West could ruff this if he wanted to but South was always going to lose a club trick anyway so it didn't matter. There was no way for East to gain the lead again for a further club lead so dummy's king of clubs was safe from attack. South took six trump tricks and the ace/king in each minor suit - ten tricks and game made. It was East's opening 1C bid that made things easy for declarer. If the jack of clubs lead was a singleton, it was important to win the first trick in hand with the ace of clubs. Look what would have happened if declarer had made the mistake of winning with dummy's king. West would win the ace of hearts at trick 2 and switch to a spade, won by East. Now the queen of clubs is led. If South plays his ace, East ruffs (the third trick for the defence) and declarer must lose another club later in the play .. and that's one down. If East had decided to pass instead of opening the bidding, declarer would not have had the important clue about the club distribution. Seeing no danger, declarer might have won the first trick with dummy's king and finished one down. |
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| Cadet Cup |
CONGRATULATIONS
To Chris Holford & Terry Harrison
For winning 2008 Cadet Cup |
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| Championship Pairs |
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Championship Pairs 2008/9 |
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1st Week |
2nd Week |
Result |
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| Val Neyland & Sarah Chapman |
64.76 |
54.43 |
59.60 |
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| Mike Hunt & Ian Kemp |
59.05 |
54.63 |
56.84 |
2 |
| Stan Frost & Dick Roscoe |
55.71 |
55.21 |
55.46 |
3 |
| Sara Barnett & John Leake |
57.5 |
52.55 |
55.03 |
4 |
| Roger Ruffles & Mike Whittles |
56.19 |
51.82 |
54.01 |
5 |
| Sheila Evans & Mike Robson |
50.83 |
55.79 |
53.31 |
6 |
| David & Margaret Murphy |
52.08 |
48.96 |
50.52 |
7 |
| Sid Prosser & Peter Byford |
42.86 |
53.70 |
48.28 |
8 |
| Sue & Ed Devine |
48.1 |
45.37 |
46.74 |
9 |
| Frank Seward & Diane Wells |
37.08 |
43.75 |
40.42 |
10 |
| Gill Cunningham & Sally Burnay |
26.67 |
51.30 |
38.99 |
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| HBA Herts Champs Final |
Our congratulations go to STAN FROST & DICK ROSCOE
For coming 8th in the FINAL of the HBA Hertfordshire Championship Pairs
A great result , WELL DONE
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| HBA Intermediate Cup |
Congratulations to John Leake and Sara Barnett for coming 2nd and Jill Mumford and Ian Kemp for coming 3rd in the above.
Well done for keeping the Broxbourne flag flying. |
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| Members' News & Achievements Elsewhere |
We try to keep up with our members achievements away from Broxbourne, so if you know of any success by a Broxbourne player, please let us know by contacting STAN FROST or SHEILA EVANS |
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