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| This Weeks Winners are.... |
♥ Congratulations to Pat and Alasdair, this weeks deserved winners on 23 April 2025 with a handsome 65%.♥
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| Hand of the Week! |
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Competitive bidding, pushing opponents and takeout doubles
This is board 18 from Wednesday 2 April 2025. The board caught my interest partly because all but one pair crashed out mostly by going many tricks off, and the only pair to make the bid contract bid a lowly 3 Diamonds.
East is dealer and passes. With a distributional 13 HCP South opens the bidding with 1 Club. West, holding a weak hand with 7 Hearts and favourable vulnerability, should be tempted to bid a pre-emptive 3 Hearts to seriously interfere with North/South's progress.
With North's hand, what's the correct bid given the bidding by West?
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With North holding 13 HCP, there are sufficient points for game, given South's opening bid. However, West's excellent interfering 3 Hearts bid makes it difficult to explore the hand without the risk of the bidding going too high and many North's may very well pass, hoping to gain penalty points with the 3 Hearts bid failing to make. However with the favourable vulnerability for E/W, North/South could end up with a meagre 50 or 100 points - not much to show for hands with game-going values! With North holding 4 cards in South's bid Club suit, a punt bid of 5 Clubs might seem the best bet, but with East sitting with 4 Clubs including the Ace and King, which East isn't going to double a 5 Club bid as penalty?
The correct bid for North is to Double the 3 Hearts bid as a takeout. It is important to be clear with partner to what bidding level does a double mean takeout (apart from 1 NT - Double which should always be considered as a penalty). Most players would say that 3 Spades and above doubled is for penalty, and below 3 Spades, a double is for takeout. On this occasion South holds the Ace and Queen of Hearts, showing 2 stoppers in the opponents bid suit. It would therefore be best to bid 3 NT by South. 3 NT makes +1 to any lead from West, or 11 tricks if West leads a Heart. South can also make 5 Clubs provided they don't play the Queen Clubs towards East's AK10. The hand will also make 4 Spades as the Spades split favourably 3-3 in opponents hands.
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