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The first lecture on "The Principles of Card Play" by Paul Marston will be on Monday 2 Feb at 1130. This is a trial run and we will, as a collective, decide on the way forward. Do please try to make this session as it is for all level of players. The attendance on 2 Feb will be used to gauge interest for future lessons as well as to order books. Thank you and enjoy!
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| 26 February 2026 |
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Click on SHOW to read report from Mike Newport
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After two passes, (South is nearly strong enough to bid; you could bid this hand in third position after two passes, but not before your partner has had a chance to bid. It would be easy to mislead partner if you opened 1S in second position) West pre-empts with 3H. As North you assess the situation, East and South have less strength than allows them to make an opening bid. West has 6 to 10 points, assume 8. This gives you 22 between North and West Assume that East and South have 9 each to make up the 40. Therefore the hand belongs to N-S, holding 23 against 17.
North’s best bid is to double. A double in this situation will always show either 4 spades or at least tolerance for spades as this will be the likely response from South: so with a 5 card spade suit headed by the AQ and good shape to the hand, South should bid four spades. Partner will applaud your bid when you make the contract, quite possibly with an overtrick. The safety play for spades by declarer is not to try for a finesse, but to lead a small card towards the Jack, this will enable you to lose only one spade trick.
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Results
3HW -3; 3HW -1; 3HW = (twice); 3SS +1; 4HW -1;
N-S 1st J Tagg & E Jurgensen………..56.1%
2nd M Mc Garvie & S Shaw………52.9%
E-W 1st H Clohessy & M Wesselo…….63.8%
2nd D Humphrey & D De Coning..58.8%
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