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| This Weeks Winners are.... |
♥ Congratulations to Bob and Peter Oldfield, winners on 5 November 2025 with an excellent score of 72%! Well done to them. ♥
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| Hand of the Week! |
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High Level Bidding - Board 3 from 27 August 2025
This is board 3 from Wednesday 27 August 2025 as discussed on the results page. There are many potential scenarios for this hand to play out. Have a look at the hand and consider how you played it, or might play it if you haven't already. When ready, look at the answers.
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Scenario 1
Dealer is South and with 10 HCP, and an insufficient values to open on "The Rule of 20," passes. West has a healthy hand with plenty of Spades and opens "1 Spade." North has a strong hand with 7 Heart cards so considers their overcall. With a Spade bid by opponents and partners earlier pass North bids a game bid "4 Hearts." The hand is too strong for a pre-emptive looking "3 Hearts" overcall. With the bidding at this level East pass as do South and West. A spade lead delivers 13 winning tricks for North provided they lead the Q Diamonds towards the Ace in North and find the K of Diamonds in West, which they do - for 510 score
Scenario 2
The same beginning with 1 Spade by West. I think most North's will bid "3 Hearts" showing the 7 card suit. East has good support for partner's opening suit, BUT only 5 HCP and with vulnerability set poor against their side. However, on balance I think it is right for East to be bold and bid "3 Spades." From here South has an easy game raise, with 3 good card support, good points and favourable vulnerability - "4 Hearts." With a decent 6 card Spade suit I can see very few West's not taking over the bidding - "4 Spades," North doubles West's 4 Spades for penalty - signalling to partner to cease bidding. 4 Spades makes 8 tricks, with a Spade lead - (1 Heart, 2 Diamonds, 1 Spade and 1 Club) Scoring 500 to North/South - more points than had they played in 4 Hearts + 2 ( = 480 points)
Scenario 3
The same bidding as scenario 2: West - 1 Spade; North - 3 Hearts; East - 3 Spades; South 4 Hearts; West - 4 Spades......
Lets consider North's position - their opening bid of 3 Hearts shows a pre-emptive hand with 7 cards in the Heart suit. This was a weak interpretation of their hand. So I think with South's encouragement and support for Hearts, North should feel safe to rebid their Hearts at the 5 Level - "5 Hearts!" East passes. So what should South do? South's supportive bid of 4 Hearts showed a "bid to the fit" in the Hearts suit - 3 Card support following partners overcall showing 7 cards in Hearts = 10 cards in Hearts = "4 Hearts" bid. Responding to partners overcall we simply apply a "Bid to the Fit" of the bid suit regardless of the amount of high card points!!. But South has so much more in their hand. Holding the singleton Ace of Spades, good support partner's suit, a long Diamond suit and a partner prepared to go to the 5 level without knowledge of South's holding, it is here that South should strike for Gold and bid the slam! 6 Hearts making 980 on a club lead (unlikely) ....or 6 Hearts (+1) making 1010 with a Spade lead.
Well done to Alasdair and Pat on bidding the slam. Did they get there through this route?
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| Important News! |
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