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A beginner story :-)

#1 User is offline   zimzam 

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Posted 2006-July-13, 03:13

A beginnerhistory from BBO

I have a friend who want to learn bridge, so he registered at BBO totally green. Vi had som lessons in bidtraining, where he learned counting points and opening bidding. We decided to play some hands against some friends of mine and we were supposed to bid totally natural and without any conventions, just to learn the first steps :-)

This hand was one of his first bridgehands ever!:

Magne

A108xx
x
KQxx
Kxx

Me
9
AJ1098xx
Ax
xxx

Me Magne

3H pass 3S! x
3NT pass pass x
pass pass xx! pass
pass pass

Jack of spades led Ace won. The small heart forced the queen an Ace and the next heart forced the King. Clubshift to Ace and a new club. Claim +2. 1800 scored and then my friend Magne asks: "Was that good?" LOL

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Posted 2006-July-13, 03:26

Cute :blink: Magne will never forget it and he's now a bridge player for the rest of his life!

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Posted 2006-July-13, 06:41

zimzam, on Jul 13 2006, 04:13 AM, said:

Magne
A108xx
x
KQxx
Kxx

Me
9
AJ1098xx
Ax
xxx

Me Magne
3H pass 3S! x
3NT pass pass x
pass pass xx! pass
pass pass

Jack of spades led Ace won. The small heart forced the queen an Ace and the next heart forced the King. Clubshift to Ace and a new club. Claim +2. 1800 scored and then my friend Magne asks: "Was that good?" LOL

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Uh.... how did u get back to the hearts? :blink:
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Posted 2006-July-13, 07:07

A of diamonds?
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Posted 2006-July-13, 07:26

dummy has a singleton heart... and knocked out the QH... later took AH and knocked out HK, then how did they do that without using up the AD?
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Posted 2006-July-13, 07:35

the claim is good:)
I like this story anyway.
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Posted 2006-July-13, 07:41

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Is the word "pass" not in your vocabulary?
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Posted 2006-July-13, 08:56

SoTired, on Jul 13 2006, 01:26 PM, said:

dummy has a singleton heart... and knocked out the QH... later took AH and knocked out HK, then how did they do that without using up the AD?

Because the Q was singleton. You can infer it from the story.
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Posted 2006-July-13, 09:04

SoTired, on Jul 13 2006, 09:26 AM, said:

dummy has a singleton heart... and knocked out the QH... later took AH and knocked out HK, then how did they do that without using up the AD?

He didn't knock out the ♥Q, he led beat it with the A, then forced out the K. So the contract makes when RHO has xxx, H, Hx, KQ, or KQx in ♥.

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Posted 2006-July-13, 10:26

RHO had KQ doubleton H yes :blink:
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