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- From: sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Steve Myerson)
- Subject: Problems from Portland - results and summary
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.151557.27043@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>
- Sender: news@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Administrator)
- Organization: Raytheon Company
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:15:57 GMT
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-
- Thanks for the responses to my questions.
- I've seen 5 articles and received 2 other responses via email.
-
- In article <1992Nov16.230024.2100@rayssd.ssd.ray.com> I wrote:
-
- * These hands are from the Flight B Open Pairs in Portland, Maine (Nov 14).
- *
- * Get any two correct and you win the event.
-
- These problems were obviously our bad boards.
- We didn't get any right, and finished 5th. :-(
-
- Each of the following mistakes cost us 6-9 MP,
- and since we finished 10 MP out of first,
- any two correct would have been enough to win the event.
-
-
- * 1. None vul. East dealer. You are West: AJ9542, T, Q7, AT32
- *
- * West North East South
- * pass pass
- * 1S-1 1N-2 pass 2D 1. 11-15 HCP, at least 4 spades
- * pass 2H (all pass) 2. 15-17
- *
- * After West passed, South announced that there had been
- * a failure to alert, and that 2D was a transfer to 2H.
- * The director then permitted West to take back his final
- * pass if he wished. What do you do?
-
- Correct answer: PASS.
- net.experts: 2 passes (both said they would have opened 2S and avoided
- this problem altogether),
- 4 reopen (and another vote for opening 2S)
- 1 request an adjusted score due to infraction
-
- I reopened with a double, although afterwards I decided that 2S would
- have been better, especially since we were playing 4 card majors.
- Now that I've had a chance to look at it,
- I agree with the people who suggested that this hand be opened 2S.
-
- The mistake was reopening. My RHO had T3, Q6542, K85, QJ9
- and LHO had K86, AK87, A32, K76. RHO should have transferred and
- invited in NT, but got confused because "you forgot to alert, partner".
-
- Over my partner's 3D bid, my RHO showed some values with a 3H bid,
- and my LHO, with a maxi and great trumps, bid 4H.
- All the scores were NS +420 or +170, so reopening turned our
- tie for top into a tie for bottom.
-
- Had I known that 2D was a transfer, I would have bid 2S.
- But when it seemed that RHO had run from 1N to 2D,
- I wondered what had happened to the AKQJ of hearts
- since there seemed to be a shortage of both points
- and hearts in the deck.
-
- Is this a case where I should have known to ask my LHO
- about the meaning of the 2D bid? There's no place on
- the convention card for this sort of thing.
-
- * 2. Both vul. South dealer. You are East: T74, KJ52, K7, Q975
- *
- * West North East South
- * 1D-1 1. Shows at least 4
- * dbl 1S dbl-2 1N 2. Responsive, 6-9 HCP
- * pass 5D ?
-
- Correct answer: PASS.
- net.experts: 5 pass
- 2 double
-
- My partner doubled. Declarer can always make 7D,
- due to 2 finesses working, but only 2 pairs bid 6D.
- This declarer managed to take 12 tricks, losing a heart trick.
- West (me) had a distributional take-out double: KJ2, QT98, 2, AT843.
-
- North had AQxxx, xx, QJxxxx, void and South was xx, Axx, ATxx, KJxx.
- With spades splitting 3-3 and both the spade and diamond kings onside,
- 13 tricks were easy. NS scores were +1390, +800, +640, +630 and +600,
- (the last two scores presumably as a result of playing in NT),
- so had this declarer managed only 12 tricks (playing 5D undoubled),
- our -620 would have been a very good score.
- In fact, our -950 beat only those defending 6D (striped tail ape double?).
-
-
- * 3. NS vul. West dealer. You are West: Q863, J63, 632, AQ6
- *
- * West North East South
- * pass 1C 2N-1 3H 1. 6-12 HCP, at least 4 spades and 4 diamonds
- * 3S 4H pass pass with at least 9 cards total in the 2 suits
- * ?
-
- Correct answers: DOUBLE (best) or PASS.
- net.experts: 6 pass (2 suggested that they might double)
- 1 double
-
- I bid 4S, which got doubled and went down 2
- (yes, I followed up my bad bid with bad declarer play,
- throwing away what few remaining matchpoints we could have gotten).
-
- My partner has a spade and diamond trick,
- and my RHO turns up with the king of clubs, so 4H also goes down.
- Double would have tied for top, but +100 would have tied for next-to-top.
-
- * 4. Both vul. South dealer. You are North: QJ95, T97, AKT762, void
- *
- * West North East South
- * 1S-1 1. 11-15 HCP, at least 4 spades
- * pass 2C-2 2H pass-* 2. artificial, forcing to game
- * 3H ? opener may not pass short of game
- * 2C bidder may pass short of game on misfit
- *
- * * - To help with the bidding system:
- *
- * double - would be for penalties
- * 2S - would show 5
- * 2N - would show a heart stopper
- * 3m - better than minimum opening plus a suit
- *
- * so the pass says only 4 spades, no heart suit or decent stopper,
- * not a distributional hand, and on the low end of the HCP range (11-13).
- * In other words, your basic garbage balanced opener with 4 spades.
-
- Correct answer: DOUBLE (best) or 3S (forcing) or 4S (to play)
- net.experts: 1 double
- 6 either forcing pass, 3S (forcing) or 4S (to play)
-
- My partner bid 3S (yes, forcing), agreeing spades and demanding me to cuebid.
- (The way we play it, if one partner starts a cue-bidding sequence,
- the other is obligated to also cue, up to the level of game,
- even without extra values).
-
- Partner decided slam was a good bet if I had a singleton heart
- (then I would have been exactly 4-1-4-4).
- Some net.experts also mentioned this.
-
- I showed the ace of clubs, partner bid 4D and I signed off in 4S.
- Partner then bid 5D and I signed off in 5S. Down 1.
-
- The look on my partner's face as I won the *third* round of hearts
- with the queen was priceless.
- The look on his face as I lost a spade finesse to the king was dismay.
-
- The 2H bidder had bid on AKxx of hearts,
- for "lead-directing purposes since we were going to game".
- His partner raised to 3H on Jxx.
- 3Hx goes down 4 on perfect defense, 3 otherwise.
-
- Double would have been a top, but +620 in 4S would have been OK, too.
-
- * 5. NS vul. East dealer. You are South: 9, J4, AK7654, JT94
- *
- * West North East South
- * pass ?
- *
- * Do you preempt or not?
-
- Correct answer: 3D.
- net.experts: 4 pass
- 2 2D
- 1 3D
-
- The bidding as it happened:
- West North East South
- pass pass
- 1N pass 2C 2D
- 2S pass 2N pass
- 3S pass pass pass
-
- I decided not to open, due to a) the decent 4-card club suit
- and b) East had passed.
-
- If I open 3D (I can't open 2D since our 2D doesn't show diamonds),
- the opponents thought that they would probably have bid to 4S.
- 3S made 3 and can never make 4.
-
- On *this hand* I should have preempted (playing result merchant)
- but I'm still not sure if there's a definitive answer on whether
- or not to preempt in a similar type of situation
- (vul vs not, second seat, side 4-card suit).
-
- Steve Myerson (sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com)
-