Big Slam Magazine - Flipbook - Page 37
ITS Match 5. Senior moment
not surprisingly, they failed to drop the singleton
}K offside. The question is, 'How to make 12
tricks, specifically after the {K lead'?
Deep Finesse recommends ruffing a club, playing }A-Q, followed by [A and a club ruff, noting
that the clubs are now high.
Then spades from the top. Sooner or later South
will trump and have to return a club or a heart.
Simple really … Two East-Wests were not tested
because they quietly collected +1100 after
1} - 2] - X - all pass."
WEST
Grant
NORTH
McCallum
EAST
Hoffman
SOUTH
Johannsson
1NT 12-14 no
no
The successful pairs in 6} were Bill and Jodi
Tutty from ACT Open and Wendy Jettner Tracey O'Driscoll from SA Women. Both received
the ]7 lead. The latter pair were +103 on datums
in their match, quite possibly a record.
Match 11. As wild as it gets
no
David's take: "I opened 1NT, followed by three
passes. As I went to write the contact in my
scorebook, Kate said “Are you passing”?
"I then realised that Axel had doubled, so I redoubled as required (playing SWINE) and it went
pass - pass to North who scrambled to 2{.
"We doubled that but did not beat it. So instead of
me passing in ignorance for +380 we scored
-180."
Match 8. Very Deep
WEST
2[
no
NORTH
EAST
SOUTH
4} } & ]?
4]
1[
4[
X
no
no
end
That's one possible auction. Or Maybe 3[
Michaels if available. No way North should sell
out to 4[, and yet 11 Easts were allowed to play
it. Seven made it and four went down. To make it
on an unlikely spade lead you have to cash the
[A and play clubs. Not likely!
Richard Ward: "14 pairs across all four fields
reached 6} from West, most going down when,
Eight Norths missed the spade fit, going down in
5}x. Two Easts played 5[, which is par. Four
Norths went to 5]. Understandable with 7-5,
though a Lightner double appeals.