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| Cue bids...Arthurs seat 21st October |
Well done this weeks winners Karen and Mary with Amalia and Gints a star behind  .
Board eight split the field following another aggresive effort by the advanced robots. In the illustrated auction all the souths were put to the test when after a spade overcall by north ... the east bot raised to 4♥.
My view is that the long term winning action is to support partner in this spot. Ideally you would like four card spade support but there are still several things that 4♠ feel right. 1) 4♠ is making. 2) 4♥ is also a making. 3) you might actually push them to the five level. This effectively gives you three bites at the cherry and its only when none of these things happen that pass works best .
As it turns out, north despite only a semi balanced hand with a six card suit, the EV (expected value) for bidding 4♠ was a massive +603 compared to -153 for the pass.
Meanwhile there was another robot in the mix, she was partnering 'Archimedes' Andy. Lia, normally fairly reliable was given the very problem set by the other robots and after doing the calculations found the zero star pass, unlucky .
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| Cue bids...Arthurs seat 14th October |
Well Done this weeks winners Marina and Sarah along with runners up Karen R and Mary half a star behind. Board ten split the field with less than half the pairs bidding the excellent spade slam. Aggressive interference by the robots took up space and put north on the spot when the bidding came back.
I took a fairly committed action and rebid 4NT asking for key cards and when Stephen admitted to one had a pot at 6♠ .
Meanwhile Australian lady internationals took a more circumspect approach. Mimi cue bid 4H hoping to elicit something from Linda, but to no avail. Not easy and well done if you bid the spade slam
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