inquiry Posted November 30, 2003 Report Share Posted November 30, 2003 Board 1Dealer NorthVuln. None S H AT9752 D A9832 C KQ S KQJ52 S 8764H 83 H K6D Q6 D JC JT42 C A97653 S AT93 H QJ4 D KT754 C 8 North will open 1H and South should show support, perhaps after bidding a spade. East-West can make things tough on NS by bidding black suits. Six diamonds or 6 hearts by NS is not horrible, but it does a 2-1 diamond split (78%)and the heart king on-side (50%), making the slam 0.78*0.5 or 39%. A 5C sacrafice should be only slightly painful for EW Notice that 5C is a great sacrifice (loses 1C, 1H, 1D, 2S) 4HN+2 480 5.035HN= 450 4.455DS= 400 2.954SWx-2 300 0.666HN-1 -50 -6.876HNx-1 -100 -7.76 Board 2Dealer EastVuln. NS S T987 H AKJ94 D K64 C 8 S J2 S AK6H QT8 H 653D 985 D 72C AKQT7 C J9432 S Q543 H 72 D AQJT3 C 65 This hand is one with a wide varety of contracts. The most likely auction is two passes to West who opens 1C. North will overcall 1H (or double), and East will raise clubs, buy bidding some number of clubs depending upon their agreement, or maybe 2H (cue-bid) if north overcalls 1H. After a heart overcall, if EAST raises clubs EAST may make a responsive double. NS has a shot at 4H if EW do not find their spade ruff, but the defense against 4H can easily start SPADE-AK- spade ruff, club Ace. So 3H is the limit NS. Likewise 3D loses the same four tricks. So best "contract" for NS is 3D/3H. East-West have to lose 3H (or 2H and a heart ruff) and 2D, so their top spot is 2C. Note this is a 19 trump hand (law of total tricks), and yet there are only 17 tricks. But note, the best result for NS was 4H making, best defense is not always found. and 4Cx. 4HN= 620 10.684CWx-2 300 5.183SS+1 170 2.215CW-3 150 1.712SS+1 140 1.583DS= 110 0.614CW-2 100 0.533CW-1 50 -1.162CW= -90 -4.474SS-1 -100 -4.553CW= -110 -4.873SN-2 -200 -6.74 Board 3Dealer SouthVuln. EW S AT83 H AQ5 D AQ C KT97 S KJ654 S 92H T H KJ8432D KJT65 D 98C AQ C J54 S Q7 H 976 D 7432 C 8632 It is very easy for both sides to get to high. The best way to stay low is for north to overcall 1S with 1NT, but his hand is too strong for this bid so he will make a takeout dbl planning to rebid 2NT. Which should end the auction. But the tempation for EW will be to get back into the bidding... EAST with good hearts, west with nice 5-5. If either one of them bids again, they may regret their decision. North will be anxious to double with EW vul and NS not. At imps, the one thing you want to avoid is total disasters. 4Hx down four is easily classified as that, and 4Sx could easily be down three for nearly just as bad. How might 4H auction occur? If norht overcalls 1NT EAST will think his hand is good enough for a non-forcing 2H call. The logic here is that if EAST had a good hand and hearts he would DOUBLE 1NT, so 2H over 1NT shows long hearts and a weak hand. IF WEST misunderstood the meaning of this 2H bid, he might jump to 3NT which, when doubled, would force EAST to rebid 4H. 4HEx-4 1100 14.474SWx-2 500 9.263NN= 400 7.763HE-3 300 5.822NW-2 200 3.472NN= 120 22NE-1 100 1.162NN-1 -50 -2.241SW= -80 -3.033NN-2 -100 -3.662SW= -110 -3.712NN-3 -150 -4.742NN-4 -200 -5.923DWx= -670 -12.42 Board 4Dealer WestVuln. All S AT764 H KJ5 D T74 C KQ S J53 S K2H T3 H Q874D QJ986 D AK3C A92 C 6543 S Q98 H A962 D 52 C JT87 North will openen 1NT and EAST frequently doubled South should raise to 2 spades and West, with five diamonds and values, will bid 3D. The other alternative is for EAST to pass, south will raise to 2S and after two passes, East will balance back in with a double. West will still bid 3Ds. So the final result depends on whether or not north or south will take the push to 3S. From a law of total tricks stand point, there are 16 trumps (8S+8D) suggesting 16 tricks. NS can make 2S (double dummy defense is low diamond, and a heart swtich spade switch). Basically impossible defense to find at the table. Against 3D on a trump lead, it takes the same play on hearts (setting up a heart trick) for EW to go down only one (assuming of course, the first diamond is won on WEST). 3SNx= 730 11.53HE-4 400 6.323HE-3 300 4.213DW-2 200 21NN+2 150 0.322SN+1 140 0.162SN= 110 -0.823DW-1 100 -0.893DW= -110 -5.92 Note the wild results on this hand. The first is 3Sx. At imps, you don't want to double a close contracts if you double them into game. Let's look at the most likley results. DBL no-DB: Win3S-1 +200 +100 3 imps3S= -140 -730 11 imps So you win 3 imps when you are right with this double, but lose 11 imps when you are wrong. So you better be right, and if you do double, you better play great defense. The other wild results are the pairs that got into hearts EW. You really need to avoid the 4-2 fits when you have nice 5-3 fits. Board 5Dealer NorthVuln. NS S 5 H Q2 D AKT52 C KQJT5 S QJ96 S 8743H AK764 H J853D 96 D J743C A6 C 7 S AKT2 H T9 D Q8 C 98432 Here is another LAW of Total trick hand, where the law is not even close. NS can make 4C, EW can make 1H (lose spade AK, spade ruff, diamond to queen, spade ruff, diamond). So total number of tricks are 7 for EW and 10 for NS for 17. Yet there are 19 trumps (10 clubs, 9 hearts). North should open 1D and south will respond 1S. If west bids 2H, it stamps the end of game ambition for NS, but if he passes, north will rebid clubs. Now it is up to south to decide how high they go. Five clubs will make on a spade lead, and this is where the problem comes in on the 5Cx hand. If WEST passed throughout and then shows up with a double, it might be intepreted as a "ligther double"/ 5CNx= 750 11.664CNx= 710 11.135HWx-3 500 8.894HWx-2 300 5.373CN+2 150 1.974CN= 130 1.55HW-1 50 -0.325CN-1 -100 -3.846CNx-1 -200 -6.213NN-3 -300 -8.11 Board 6Dealer EastVuln. EW S QJ8654 H QJ542 D 62 C S 93 S AK2H K63 H T9D QT94 D J73C JT87 C AQ932 S T7 H A87 D AK85 C K654 The precaution about doubling opponents into game applies here, look at 2Sx for NS and 3Cx for EW. These were disasters for the pairs doubling. At matchpoint, you can risk these close doubles, but at imps, caution is better. See comments on Board 4. On this hand, NS can make 4Spades by ducking the opening HEART lead or 4S by ruffing the 3rd spade when it is lead. Understandably, EW's limit is 3Clubs. NS had trouble getting to 4 of a major. The simpliest way is for South to open 1NT either 12-14 or 14-16 variety. 2SNx+2 670 10.263SNx= 530 8.114SN= 420 6.163NWx-1 200 1.423SN+1 170 0.952HN+1 140 0.111DS= 70 -1.345HN-1 -50 -3.891NW= -90 -4.844HN-2 -100 -5.113CE= -110 -5.321NE+1 -120 -5.393NS-3 -150 -6.033NS-5 -250 -7.793CEx= -670 -12.61 Board 7Dealer SouthVuln. All S Q8764 H Q94 D KJT C A3 S T S AJ9H AJT732 H D A D Q98764C QJ942 C T765 S K532 H K865 D 532 C K8 On board 7, EW got usually got into trouble. They played in clubs, diamonds, and hearts at levels from 2 to 5. The only way to keep EW out of trouble was to have NS enter the bidding and end up in 3 or Spades. Notice the wide range of contracts and results on this one. Kudos for the defense against Spades that starts diamond to ACE, Heart ACE, big heart for ruff, diamond ruff, heart ruff and sure spade ACE to hold EW to seven tricks. The big heart back is a LAVINTHAL suit preference signal suggesting a diamond back. 5CWx-3 800 12.555HW-5 500 9.035CWx-2 500 9.034HW-5 500 9.033HW-3 300 5.683DE-3 300 5.685CW-3 300 5.684HW-2 200 3.585CWx-1 200 3.585CWx-1 200 3.583SN= 140 2.212SN+1 140 2.213SS= 140 2.213SN= 140 2.214CW-1 100 1.265CW-1 100 1.265CW-1 100 1.264CW-1 100 1.262HW-1 100 1.265CW-1 100 1.262HW-1 100 1.263HW-1 100 1.262SN-1 -100 -3.182SN-1 -100 -3.182CW+1 -110 -3.263CW= -110 -3.263CW+1 -130 -4.054CW= -130 -4.054CW+1 -150 -4.373CW+2 -150 -4.373SN-2 -200 -5.454SS-3 -300 -7.554SNx-2 -500 -10.55CW= -600 -11.47 Board 8Dealer WestVuln. None S J853 H 98 D J8753 C T2 S KT97 S A4H K7 H AJ53D 9 D QT64C AKJ543 C Q86 S Q62 H QT642 D AK2 C 97 Six clubs makes on three spade ruffs in dummy, ruff the second one with the CLUB Queen to prevent overruff. Well done by the pair that bid the slam. Getting to 6Clubs EW on this hand is a bidding contest type of hand. But EW need to get to at least 3NT. 3HE-1 50 10.744CW+2 -170 6.845CW= -400 1.713NE+1 -430 0.843NE+2 -460 -0.163NE+3 -490 -1.133NE+4 -520 -2.036CW= -920 -10.16 Board 9Dealer NorthVuln. EW S K4 H T843 D QT7 C AKQJ S J97 S 86532H AQ76 H KJ2D AJ6 D 3C 432 C T976 S AQT H 95 D K98542 C 85 After north opens 1NT, south has to decide rather to bid game or not. 3NT turns out to be down one on a heart lead or heart switch, so those who judge to stay out of 3NT are right on evaluation, but playin in 3D wins very few imps. But bidding game which might win you 8 imps, but can cost you 5. 3SEx-2 500 8.323NN+3 490 8.133NN+2 460 7.633NN+1 430 6.845DS+1 420 6.823NN= 400 6.52NN+3 210 2.262NN+2 180 1.792DS+3 150 0.923DS+1 130 0.472NN= 120 0.423NN-1 -50 -3.892NN-1 -50 -3.894HN-2 -100 -5.263NN-2 -100 -5.26 Board 10Dealer EastVuln. All S T8742 H AT7 D Q763 C 7 S Q3 S AK6H J63 H K85D KT2 D J84C KQ843 C A652 S J95 H Q942 D A95 C JT9 A simple 3NT hand. At imps, bul all EW pairs should bid 3NT. With 5C, 3S for eight tricks, you need to build just one trick in the red suits for game. 3NE-1 100 11.552CE+2 -130 9.393NE= -600 -0.633NE+1 -630 -1.613NE+2 -660 -2.61 Board 11Dealer SouthVuln. None S AK H Q8652 D Q8543 C 2 S 65 S Q8432H KJ7 H 93D D KJ96C KQJT9643 C A8 S JT97 H AT4 D AT72 C 75 This hand is bridge judgment by WEST. He might open 1C, 3C, 4C or even 5C. Notice again the penalty for foe EW for doubling 3H's into game. It is much safer to double 4H's. What does the Law say about this one? EW have 10 card club fit, NS havfe 8 card heart fit. That is 18 tricks. NS can make 3 hearts, EW can make four clubs. That is 18 trumps, 18 tricks. 6CWx-2 300 8.295CWxx-1 200 6.635CWx-1 100 4.55CW-1 50 3.135HN-1 -50 0.844HN-1 -50 0.843DNx-1 -100 -0.371SS-2 -100 -0.374HNx-1 -100 -0.374HN-2 -100 -0.373CW= -110 -0.394CW= -130 -1.164CW+1 -150 -1.633SS-4 -200 -2.744HNx-2 -300 -4.923NW= -400 -7.085CW= -400 -7.083NE= -400 -7.085CWx= -550 -9.53NEx= -550 -9.5 Board 12Dealer WestVuln. NS S 972 H QJ74 D 43 C A862 S QJ85 S K4H AT2 H K983D AJ92 D T6C Q3 C J9754 S AT63 H 65 D KQ875 C KT A simple hand to end on. West will open 1D, or if playing 12-14 or 14-16 NT, 1NT. East will bid a heart, and west will bid 1S, 2H or 1NT. 2H will end the auction as should 1NT. If West rebids 1NT, East will bid 1NT, again ending the auction. If South balances back into the bidding, he may get himself into trouble. 3CE-1 50 5.211NE-1 50 5.213HE-1 50 5.211NE= -90 1.762CW= -90 1.762NS-1 -100 1.612HE= -110 1.051NE+1 -120 0.842HE+1 -140 0.051NE+2 -150 0.032NW+1 -150 0.031NE+3 -180 -0.921NE+3 -180 -0.922DS-2 -200 -1.391NN-2 -200 -1.392DS-2 -200 -1.392SN-3 -300 -3.713NW+1 -430 -6.612SSx-2 -500 -7.922NSx-3 -800 -11.82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenisO Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Hi Ben When I try to print this analysis, the formatting of the hand diagrams is lost. any suggestions? Denis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Formatting of BBO Forum is not compatible with standard Windows features. I think your best option will be simply to make a printscreen. There are 2 options for that. I dont remember exactly, I no longer print myself, but try: PrtScCTRL+PrtScFormatting of BBO is very special - therefore you have problems copy/paste from other sources into BBO Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted December 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Highlight the entire earlier post and copy it (control-V) and then paste it into MS Word or a different word processor. Change the font from whatever it is to Courier or Courier new. Then print. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenisO Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Thanks Ben - highlight, Copy and paste into Notepad works fine. Word and Wordpad lost the hand formatting even with Courier. Denis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erkson Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Thanks Ben - highlight, Copy and paste into Notepad works fine. Word and Wordpad lost the hand formatting even with Courier. Denis The problem described by our friend DenisO is not a question of proportional and non proportional font. The question of proportional/non proportional font explains that the line up of East hand is not perfect (as you can see in Ben's post). But what DenisO describes is the total lost in Wordpad (for instance) of line up : the spaces between left margin and the hands disappear and North, West, East and South hands all begin at the left margin with no spaces.Here is what you get with a cut and paste in Wordpad :Board 12Dealer WestVuln. NS S 972 H QJ74 D 43 C A862 S QJ85 S K4H AT2 H K983D AJ92 D T6C Q3 C J9754 S AT63 H 65 D KQ875 C KT And changing from Time New Roman to Courier doesn't fix it.That is not caused by some special BBO formatting. This page is a html page, and the problem is the way cut and paste treats a serie of html spaces ( H AT9752).Notepad understands well :" H AT9752"Wordpad does not if you choose "paste" :"H AT9752" In the edit tab, choose "special paste" , then "no formatting", and all will look good. Erkson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 I thought my partner, sceptic, sitting North bid this hand quite well to reach the 4S contract .... Board 6Dealer EastVuln. EW S QJ8654 H QJ542 D 62 C S 93 S AK2H K63 H T9D QT94 D J73C JT87 C AQ932 S T7 H A87 D AK85 C K654 West North East South- - 1C 1DPass 1S Pass 1NTPass 2H Pass 2SPass 3S Pass 4SAll pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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