[Bbradley62]

I'm intrigued by this one... there were four different auctions at our ten tables, with all auctions leading to a contract of 4SS. For each auction, there was a different Trick 1. Maybe someone who is a better analyst than I am can explain why the various defensive actions are best given the different auctions?

Six of the tables had the simplest auction:

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When all Wests led ♠T, all Easts were clever enough to duck and make things less clear for declarer.

The other four Souths opened 1♠, but had various auctions after North responded 1N. One South rebid 2♠:

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East was protecting against West having underled ♠A or ♠Q?

Two Souths rebid 3♠:

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Those two Wests led small ♦. I would have thought this auction made it more likely that South had ♦ honors, so underleading the ♦K would be more dangerous, but my opening leads suck, so maybe there's a good reason for this lead.

The last South rebid 4♠ and got a ♥ lead. Very unlucky...

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[cloa513]

Love the crap descriptions- 4S cannot possibly have 3 TP with 7 spades given the way GIB calculates TP (I'd say at least 6 TP {3 for length of spades and 3 for shortness} ) and no HCP description. If GIB really has no HCP count for 4S how can it simulate the play- there is a lot of choices with only 7 spades in South as the information - the leads should have been much more varying. That description like many others is just plain lazy.