[Wackojack]

Scoring: MP

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Playing in the London Easter Swiss Pairs, this was a hand that came up in the last 7-board session, which had we won 20-0 VP would have put us in a medal position.

E S W N
1♦ 1NT 2♦ 2NT
p 3NT p p
p

Opps sitting EW were playing precision. The 2♦ bid was alerted. I was North and asked what this meant and East said that it showed interest in the majors. I bid 2NT and partner raised to 3NT and recieved the 10♦lead. Partner played on the assumption that the 2♦ bid was explained correctly and went 1-off. In fact west's bid was natural. However, partner said that he thought that the contract was in any case unmakeable and he might have gone 2 light, so did not want to call the TD.

I would be very interested in how our experts would play the hand assuming that west's bid was natural and whether or not partner should have called the director assuming he thought he could make the contract if the bidding was honest. I will reveal the EW hands after much appreciated replies.

btw we generally played badly in this last session so fell back.

[Fluffy]

I don't see much hope, ♦A, ♥ to J and duck a ♠ would be my start, if a ♦ is back try to enter dummy with 4th ♥ to play a ♣ to the ♣Q, watch east's discards, if we are lucky we might make 2 ♣ tricks endplaying him, or ♠Q.

Maybe I have to cash the 3 ♦ before entering with 4th ♥, I am not so sure.

[Rebound]

I don't think it has much of a play unless East holds the AK of ♠ and West the AJ of ♣, and the ♥ Q is either dropping or onside. So, I don't think the auction matters to me a whole lot. I think I will win the ♦ in hand and lead the ♣Q. I'm hoping to come to 3♦, 2♣, 3♥, and hopefully a spade or a heart. Unlikely, perhaps. But that is my plan.

[Wackojack]

You have made me happy Rebound. It looks to me that you have found the play to make the contract against any defence.

Scoring: MP

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After looking at the hands I thought that there were grounds for claiming that we had been damaged by the mis information from the opponents. I, of course had the benefit of seeing the hands, so I wasn't sure that Rebound's line was the best. It seemed to me that west must have 4 or 5 points for the 2♦bid and probably 5 diamonds opposite a "precision" opening. To make you must play ♠AK with east and ♣AJ with west. This gives east an 11 point balanced "precision" 1♦ opening bid. Now you just have to follow the Rebound line and come to 9 tricks.