[y66]

2007 Spingold, semifinals, board 2, w/r.

P (1D) ?

AQJT743 AJ3 4 A5

Nickell v Henner-Welland

In the open room, Chris Willenken passed, Paul Soloway opened 1D, Roy Welland overcalled 4S.

In the closed room, Hemant Lall passed, Christal Henner-Welland opened 1D, Nick Nickell overcalled 1S.

Click on match title for details (requires BBO viewer).

Ao v Gromov

In the open room, Jian-Jian Wang passed, Alexander Dubinin opened 1D, Hailong Ao overcalled 4S.

In the closed room room, Cezary Balicki passed, David Chechelashvili opened 1D, Adam Zmudzinski doubled.

Hailong Ao and Jian-Jian Wang are DC area players by the way

Not concluding anything until I find another 109,996 or so examples, preferably with them opening hearts.

p.s. LIN files are courtesy of Nikos Sarantakos' VuGraph Project

[han]

AQJ10xxx is very different from AQ9xxxx.

[foo]

han, on Mar 21 2008, 01:45 PM, said:

AQJTxxx is very different from AQ9xxxx.

...and the semi-finals of the Spingold are not typical tournament conditions.

Almost no one who reads these forums has that caliber of Bridge skills, and those playing in such rarified events push bidding and card play to the absolute edge as a matter of course.