Summer Festival of Bridge Blog 4

Posted 16 January 2010 by Ron

Try this problem:

North dealer : North-South vulnerable

West	North	East	South
- - -	?

What would you do as dealer North with:

(Solution later)

We started well with a 25-3 win,

Top six after Round 9 compete in the round-robin semi-finals today:

1.	NOBLE	185
2.	LILLEY	168
3.	HIRST	165
4.	STUART	162
5.	NEILL	162
6.	KALMIN	159

You can follow some of the semi-final matches on BBO.

In the Women's, four teams qualified for the semi after Round 6.

1.	HOFFMAN	179
2.	HAVAS	164
3.	RICHARDSON	161
4.	NEALE	148

For more results, see the www.abf.com.au website.

Back to today’s problem:

Whether you play weak twos or a multi-2, North should pass. It is unsound to open with a weak two or a multi if you hold four cards in the other major. This was Board 5 from Round 7:

North dealer : North-South vulnerable

At our table it went:

West	North	East	South
- - -	2 ? (1)	Pass	2 (2)
Pass	Pass	Pass

(2) Pass or correct

Lead: 7
With spades 3-2 and the Q coming down doubleton, South made ten tricks for +170.

At the other table North passed initially and North-South reached 4. This does not need the Q to drop doubleton and that was +620 for +10 Imps. That was enough to cost a team a place in the Seniors semi-finals.