I thought some of you might be amused by this deal from yesterday's club game. I posted it on the Bridge Winners site to get some learned feedback:
https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/is-there-a-lesson-here/
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- 06 Dec 2022, 12:30
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: Is there a lesson here?
- Replies: 0
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- 09 Nov 2022, 05:51
- Forum: Methods and Conventions
- Topic: Rod's Major Suit Raises
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8103
Rod's Major Suit Raises
The Problem Consider the following hands (which we will call "Case 1") for an opening bid of one spade, using five-card majors: AQxxx Kxx Kx xxx AQxxx Kxx xxx Kx AQxxx Kx Kxx xxx AQxxx Kx xxx Kxx AQxxx xxx Kx Kxx AQxxx xxx Kxx Kx and the following holdings by responder: Kxxx QJxx Qxxx x K...
- 04 Nov 2022, 08:22
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: Australia-Wide Restricted Pairs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3481
Re: Australia-Wide Restricted Pairs
I should elaborate on "astute play" for taking 12 tricks after a low heart lead. After the first trick and seven rounds of black cards the hands will come down to: 5,A6,J6,-- --,2,1085,J --,KQ5,KQ,-- --,1097,A9,-- East is in a pickle when the last spade is cashed. If she discards a heart t...
- 03 Nov 2022, 07:51
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: Australia-Wide Restricted Pairs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3481
Australia-Wide Restricted Pairs
Pauly and I played in this by accident, as it was offered at the last minute by the club in yesterday's regular game. We placed first at the club level but it didn't matter beyond that because we have too many masterpoints to qualify at the restricted level. Lyn Smith and Jenny Archer were just behi...
- 30 Oct 2022, 08:21
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: Vulnerability and The Law
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7929
Vulnerability and The Law
Playing IMPs with the robots today I picked up this hand as South, both vulnerable. J64,AK642,1032,97 West opened 1 ♦ , partner overcalled 2 ♥ and East doubled. Your call? The Law of Total Tricks would suggest that 4 ♥ is a no-brainer. However with this hand that just didn't feel right and I chose 3...
- 22 Oct 2022, 08:37
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: One Little Detail
- Replies: 1
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Re: One Little Detail
To be sure the defence was not stellar. West's early play of the ♥A was not wise, and East could have ducked the ♠Q to deny declarer an entry to hand. Much of winning bridge is being able to capitalize on such errors.
- 21 Oct 2022, 21:12
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: One Little Detail
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3459
One Little Detail
Here's an everyday deal that I encountered with the robots today. Partscore contracts are often more interesting than games and slams, with many possible twists and turns. And with both sides in the bidding everyone will have more clues as to the distribution of the cards. North Q973,KQ82,94,A98 Sou...
- 18 Oct 2022, 07:58
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: Who's Sacrificing?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8121
Who's Sacrificing?
This is one of the more memorable deals from Monday's club game, a red point event. Doug was my partner. I'll just post a screenshot of the online results. Screenshot from 2022-10-17 20-05-27.png The auction proceeded: West Rod East Doug 1 ♥ 2 ♦ 3♣ 3 ♦ 4♣ 4 ♦ 5♣ 5 ♦ Pass Pass 6♣ Pass Pass Dbl All pa...
- 13 Oct 2022, 07:54
- Forum: Bridge Questions, Puzzles, Deals
- Topic: The Many Roads to Slam
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The Many Roads to Slam
In my regular club game yesterday with Pauly I picked up this hand: AK9,AQJ873,942,2 Matchpoints, nobody vulnerable, Pauly opened a 15-17 1NT as dealer and I'm immediately at a crossroads. We play Jacoby and Texas transfers, and Key Card Blackwood. The choices appear to be: 1. Bid 4 ♦ as a transfer ...
- 11 Oct 2022, 09:49
- Forum: Methods and Conventions
- Topic: Transfer Responses to One Club
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4254
Other Similar Versions
I recently found a somewhat similar convention called Transfer Walsh: https://gambiter.com/bridge/Transfer_walsh.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_Walsh Some alternative treatments are described in those articles but the one described above is easy to add on to your existing methods.