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Some of the ACBL speedball games have been filling up to 300 pairs max well before game time. Any way can you increase capacity for those?

My wife had ♠AKQ543 ♥AKQJT63 ♦--- ♣--- RHO opened 2♦ She bid 7H. The auction should have gone P P X. Then she would have to find a 7♠ bid as I had. ♠xxxxx ♥---- ♦xxxx ♣xxxx

Has anyone used Priceline to book near the Marriott? If so , what did you win the bid with? Thanks

A heart, if I am leading "their suit", a heart as more to gain.

[hv=n=sakxhakqjxdakxcax&s=sj98xxhxxdxxxckxx]133|200|[/hv] Against Meckwell, got to 7S where the defense knew I had nothing. Rodwell led a spade, I won the A, went to my hand and ran the SJ. Rodwell led a spade from Qxx knowing the AK would show up in dummy I will never forget the look on his face. Probably ducking at trick 1 is better.

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OK, you get the idea that a trump lead is right, so I will give you pards hand. [hv=d=e&v=b&s=s2haq82dkqjtckq62]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] A member of the Fleisher team thought he can beat 6S so he dbled. Meckstroth redbled Now a trump lead which was necessary is no longer possible. They were ahead by a sizeable, but shrinking number of imps at this stage. The other table played in 4SX making 6 so they lost 13 imps instead of a similar gain. Thus the dbl cost 26 IMPs. This is board 103 of the semifinal if you want to look it up.

I will give it from the most mundane hand as a lead problem. You will see the other hands later. Playing against THE BEST PAIR IN THE WORLD. Your lead? [hv=d=w&v=b&s=s74hj974d43cjt853]133|100|Scoring: IMP 1H P 1S P 2D P 3C P 3S P 6S P P P[/hv]

I would consider both plays, particularly the HA counterintuitive. The Cavendish declarer did not find either one of them.

The opening lead was the S2. Declarer can make by going up Ace unless its from a doubleton but actually ducked. The more interesting play occurs when RHO wins the spade and returns a heart when declarer had a 100% play. Again this was not mentioned by the VuGraph commentators, only how declarer went wrong in the end position when there wasn't a 100% play.

I didn't realize the hands was in the bulletin. Here are the N-S hands with the pips. The solution wasn't discussed at all on VuGraph. [hv=n=sa74h86dj1086cakqj&s=sj63haq10dak7c9542]133|200|[/hv]

West bids hearts

Lots of money at stake. I saw 3NT being played (I believe misplayed) on the following hand by what I think are the current leaders. None of the VuGraph commenters mentioned the correct play(although I tried sending chat. Play 3NT at IMPs with a low spade lead. South bids hearts.[hv=n=saxxhxxdj10xxcakqj&s=sjxxhaq10dakxcxxxx]133|200|[/hv]

Forgot to mention, the HK was on my left. If it was on my right, I probably would have led the SQ.

What I did at the table was play Ace and another heart. Win the diamond return and played a spade to the 10 hoping they would return a diamond if it lost. If it lost, I was hoping for a diamond return(which is what happened). If it won, I was leading a spade off dummy. A hard hand when you have nine tricks.