[diana_eva]

Please apply here if you'd like to play vs JEC's team this Saturday at 2PM New York Time (8PM Central European Time).

[manudude03]

I spoke to my partner about this last night, we want in.

manudude03-ruthbra

[Phil]

Manu and partner played really well with us last time so let's try to field another A pair.

Not that I'm worthy but I've got a local sectional on Saturday but GO FORUMS!

[sakuragi]

it would be 14feb at my time. naturally i would not want to play jec then.

[manudude03]

No-one else wanting to play? For me at least, playing strong opponents is more important than playing with strong teammates

[diana_eva]

Come on, need two more or a pair. Manu and pd did great last time, let's win this!

[eagles123]

well I'm around tomorrow evening if anyones up for it, but will of course step aside if a pair want to play

[gszes]

I will show up around 20 min early if nee3ded break glass:)

[mgoetze]

I'm going to say eagles and gszes might as well discuss system at this point, somehow I doubt anyone else is stepping in.

(I'm going to be playing real-life Bridge tomorrow FWIW.)

[manudude03]

Unfortunately my partner has just needed to pull out . I will be around if we can get a fourth (again).

[diana_eva]

 manudude03, on 2016-February-13, 04:20, said:

Unfortunately my partner has just needed to pull out . I will be around if we can get a fourth (again).

I'll play with you.

[diana_eva]

We lost by 50 after a very nice start. Wayne played like a champ.

Board 20 was interesting and it probably decided the fate of the match. You're -13 IMPs and this hand comes up. Rightly or wrongly, you decide to stretch and accept partner's slam invite. How will you play?

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Click Next to see the opening lead (a club).

How realistic is it to find the winning line at the table? Assuming you're an expert and not me

Spoiler

Full hand was:

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[manudude03]

It was a shame it was a 28 board match and not a 5 board match

I'm usually pretty bad at defense problems, but when I got one right on board 1, I was feeling pretty good about it, and then a game swing in on board 2 had me in cloud 9.

I happily accept my fair share of the blame for my 4NT bid on board 20, guess what happens when both sides take pushy actions to try and get a swing in . The play isn't quite as complicated as I thought when we were talking about it earlier.

Spoiler

Win the club lead, run the jack of hearts to the king and ace and play a spade to the queen. That much I had said, but when North ducks (or you have 12 tricks), you can just give up a diamond for 2 spades, 3 hearts, 4 diamonds and 3 clubs.

[eagles123]

sry I played shite was kinda distracted

[Zelandakh]

What NT response structure were you playing here? If making a slam try, it would be nice if North could also investigate the possibility of 6m along the way.

[diana_eva]

We had a CC, mainly the BBO 2/1 default with this marked for 1NT:

1NT=15-17: Stayman, Jacoby, 2♠->3♣, 2♠->3♣, 2NT->3♦, 3♣=5-5 minors weak, 3♦=5-5 minors GF, 3♥=31(54), 3♠=13(54), Gerber, Texas

Nothing discussed in detail though. I wd have assumed all that is on if pd made some strange bid I wasn't sure about

[Zelandakh]

Sounds like the alternatives were 2♣ followed by 3♦ and 2NT followed by 4♣, unless the latter would be taken as showing a shortage.

[manudude03]

 Zelandakh, on 2016-February-15, 07:54, said:

Sounds like the alternatives were 2♣ followed by 3♦ and 2NT followed by 4♣, unless the latter would be taken as showing a shortage.

I assumed 2♣ followed by 3♦ would be 5+♦4M, and no idea how she would have taken 2NT then 4♣. 4NT just seemed practical, with the possibility of 5NT pick-a-slam if accepting. The other table just bid 1N-3N.