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A very nice 6♦ contract by taymim and serdals32 on Board 14 of Sunday's Abalucy pairs (mp) contest run by MCSD.

http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...etchlin=6891235

I am not overly fond of the leap to 5♥'s, but it is very hard to argue with success... The play was nice. Here, Serdals32 cashed spades, ruffing one to isolate a spade menance, and played this hand as a double squeeze, hearts and clubs on WEST, spades and clubs on EAST...so if clubs happened not to be 3-3, the hand comes home.

Scoring: IMP


West North East South

 -     -     Pass  1♦
 1♥    1♠    Pass  5♥
 Pass  5NT   Pass  6♦
 Dbl   Pass  Pass  Pass
 

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HA H6 H4 D5
DQ DA D7 D2
SQ S4 SJ SK
DK D3 H8 D4
DJ H2 HT D9
DT H5 HJ S7
D8 H7 C7 H3
S3 S2 SA S6
S5 ST D6 H9
C6 C2 CK C3
C8 C5 CA C4
CQ CJ

[helium]

Hi i played a very cool board today were i got the chance to make a bid i been waithing for a loong time . the sting Q-Bid.
we were playing in a 16 boards imp turney and were a bit behind when this deal came in deal 10 i think.


http://online.bridge....php?id=6886795

Scoring: IMP


West North East South

 -     -     -     1♠
 2♦    2♠    Pass  4♦
 Pass  4♠    Pass  6♠
 Pass  Pass  Pass  

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T1. C8.. .time up.

Im sorry to say u cant see the play couse the time run out, and we got and ave- but u can all see it makes on this layout, only a dimond lead kills it:))
This is why i love this game:))))

ps, and to all of u that shake ur heads and think" wow he was lucky, waht a silly bid, p have this hand onece in a thousand hands!!".
let me tell u im not that pessimisstick, and i bid a bit more "wild" on internett then in f2f bridge. and what can p have? i see a lot of hands he can have where 6 spades make whitout dimond lead:))) and as said we werent doing well,we need a swing:))

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http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...etchlin=6954507

A very nice demonstration of expert technique by ppilot in a topflight event. Doesn't "score" well, but very good bridge non-the-less....

Scoring: IMP


West North East South

 -     Pass  1♣    1♦
 Dbl   1NT   2♠    3♠
 Pass  4♦    Pass  Pass
 Pass  

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S8 S3 SJ S6
D8 D4 D7 DQ

With a club and two spade losers, ppilot will have to find the heart queen to make. WEST's negative double suggest legnth in hearts, East opening bid suggest values that might include heart queen. Some guessed to hook east, some quessed west... what ppilot did was go on a exploratory expedition to see what he could find out about the hand...

D2 D3 DA DT
DK S2 C3 D9
C5 C2 CT CK <<--- expert strategy play other suits to figure out how to play hearts....
C6 ST CQ C4 <<---spade pitch, loser on loser, and force them to show their values
C9 C7 C8 D5 <<--- at this point ppilot knows all...

East has club ACE, if had SPADE AK, that would 15 hcp and balanced hand and would open 1NT. Besides if EAST had spade AKJx he would likely continue spades earlier. So West had the spade King (or ace) to go along wth the club Queen. If EAST had two small hearts, his hand would be AJxx xx xxx AKxx, barely an opening bid, and surely not enough to risk a 2♠ rebid after a natural 1NT.. so ppilot plays the hand short in hearts to hold the heart queen despite the odds being 4-2 in favoer of WEST having the it (distributinonal count sure at this point... East opened 1C with 4, had three diamonds, and freely bid 2S...so hei is 4-2-3-4).

H3 H2 HA H9
H7 HQ HK H4
H6 H5

Well done, this is why it is such a good isea to kibitz boian, he makes even routine hands a nice lesson hand...

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http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...etchlin=6954501

A very nice auction to 7D by reisig and icey in a topflight event against excellent opposition. Won 13.33 imps.

Scoring: IMP

West North East South

 -     -     -     Pass
 Pass  2♣    2♥    Dbl!
 Pass  3♦    Pass  4♥!
 Pass  4♠    Pass  4NT!
 Pass  5♣    Pass  5♠
 Pass  7♦    Pass  Pass
 Pass  

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DBL of 2D showed values,
4H is splinter bid,
4NT was a SPADE cue-bid
5S was a second cue-bid

The play? The play was too easy...

D5 DJ DQ DA
DK

[nikos59]

Well, it is not nice for someone to self-propose, and actually
I don't think the hand per se is something remarkable,
but I quite liked a bid I made the other day,
sitting West, with a pickup French partner (first
time I was playing with him) against a Sayc pair,
one of them a star player.

http://online.bridge....php?id=7127790

Note that the psychic 1S was made under adverse conditions
(unfav, no big fit with partner's suit) but it still worked.
Opponents can make 3S (in fact, 4S has some play), but
they stayed at 3NT minus 2. Not that the stratagem won
many points, a mere 3.47 imps as you see here because
some NSs played at 3NT without any bid by W. Which also
may give food for thought

http://online.bridgebase.com/cgi-bin/history.pl?...97111753-375872

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 Pass  Pass  1♦    Dbl
 1♠    Pass  2♠    Pass
 3♦    3♥    Dbl   3NT
 Pass  Pass  Pass  

D4 D2 DJ DK
SA S6 S2 S3
SK C2 S4 S7
SQ D6 S5 S9
SJ C3 ST S8
CA C4 C8 C9
CK C5 H2 CQ
H6 HJ H7 H5
DT D3 D9 D5
D7 DQ DA D8
H4 C6 HQ H8
CJ HT HK C7
H3 H9 HA CT

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Self promote like crazy... we can have 20 hands per week (most poll will allow).. if we get more than 20, we will triage out some of the weaker good ones. If we were getting lots of submissions, maybe we would limit self promotions.. but for now, I think it is a requirement. I will discuss this hand a little bit in the Equality Takeout Double thread, as it is interesting....