inquiry Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Hi.. Sept 26 starts the week two contest. So if you run accross (or play) any brilliancies, post a link to the myhand site here... Try to mention why it is a great hand...but even if you don't I am sure someone will point out why it is great, or why it is a lemon. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted September 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 This was submitted by PM to me for the second week. It was played today, by ritong My Webpage[hv=d=e&v=n&n=sk984hj85dkq2cq74&w=s532h94d98753c965&e=sat76hk76da64cak3&s=sqjhaqt32djtcjt82]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - - 1♣ 1♥ Pass 2♣ Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Dbl Pass Pass Pass Ritong = south in this diagram, his partner, north was adadp[/hv] C5 C4 CK C2 S7 SJ S2 S4 C8 C6 CQ CA S6 SQ S3 S8 DT D3 DQ DA SA H2 S5 S9 C3 CJ C9 C7 DJ D5 DK D6 SK ST H3 D7 HJ H7 HT H4 H5 HK The submitter said "Henri bidding 3NT is great judgement imo. Seems they foresaw the problem, North would det with his 20 HCP. Play was then automatic." (of course, it was henri's partner who bid 3NT...). Any one can submit hands.. you don't have to send them to me... Just post them. Include a link to the myhands version of the hand. This ensures the hand was played in the correct week, and that no creative replays fo of the hand occurred (this is not for the best problem hand if played correctly, but for the best hand bid or played.. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Here is a very nice GRAND SLAM bid and maded by Stanned and Kitta. The auction is so very nice to find the nice fitting hands. This earned 100% in a 25 table matchpoint tourneyment. http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=6131676 [hv=d=n&v=a&n=saj97hakj93dqj32c&w=st8642ht4d6cat753&e=sq53hq876dk8cq842&s=skh52dat9754ckj96]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - 1♥ Pass 2♦ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♠ Pass 5♣ Pass 6♦ Pass 7♦ Pass Pass Pass 4♣ = splinter, 5♣ confirm void [/hv] The play was straight fowardD6 D2 D8 D9 DA C3 D3 DK H2 H4 HA H7 HK H8 H5 HT H3 H6 D4 C5 SK S2 S7 S3 C6 C7 DJ C2 H9 HQ D5 S4 C9 CT DQ C4 SA S5 CK S6 HJ C8 CJ S8 S9 SQ D7 ST DT CA SJ CQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Here is a very nice GRAND SLAM bid and maded by Stanned and Kitta. The auction is so very nice to find the nice fitting hands. This earned 100% in a 25 table matchpoint tourneyment. http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=6131676 [hv=d=n&v=a&n=saj97hakj93dqj32c&w=st8642ht4d6cat753&e=sq53hq876dk8cq842&s=skh52dat9754ckj96]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - 1♥ Pass 2♦ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♠ Pass 5♣ Pass 6♦ Pass 7♦ Pass Pass Pass 4♣ = splinter, 5♣ confirm void [/hv] The play was straight fowardD6 D2 D8 D9 DA C3 D3 DK H2 H4 HA H7 HK H8 H5 HT H3 H6 D4 C5 SK S2 S7 S3 C6 C7 DJ C2 H9 HQ D5 S4 C9 CT DQ C4 SA S5 CK S6 HJ C8 CJ S8 S9 SQ D7 ST DT CA SJ CQ Since when is bidding a grand on a hook something to be emulated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Find a better one and post it...:-) This one might be easily beaten. A grand on a hook in a short matchpoint tounemnt give you 50/50 chance for a top. It is true that very few in the field even bid the small slam, so they risked what was a solid 80% score. Mathematically, I guess the this was 50% chance to earn an extra 20% score... So half the time the garnd earns 20% more, halve the time 80% less... so you maybe right. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Since when is bidding a grand on a hook something to be emulated? I can't even see from the bidding why they were sure they weren't missing an Ace! Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 This one isn´t a really good play at all, but it was made ultra quickie wich improves its style points: http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=6172747 [hv=d=e&v=n&n=sakq8hqj7dk10cj543&w=s753hk95d72cq8762&e=sj942h103daj9653c10&s=s106ha8642dq84cak9]399|300|Scoring: MPE - S - W - Np-1♥-p-1♠p-1NT-p-3NTp-p-p[/hv] The opening lead was the ♣8. This is match points for a change, I was playing an MP tourney and declared on this contract against meto (west) and _kafkaf35 (East). After the opening lead it seems I was on the best contract and I was lookign for a real topscore via double ♣ finese, I capture ♣10 in my hand and play a ♥ to dummy. Wests lets it win and next cames a ♣ from dummy... bad news, nevertheless this might mean a ♣ ruff is avaible at 4♥, I win ♣A and play another ♥ that loses to west. Next came a ♦ and I Was so greedy putting ♦10 from dummy (♦K would have quickly led to a ♠-♦ squeeze against East), wich is covered with the ♦J and I win in my hand.... it seems 4♥ loses 1♥ and 1♦ only so I really need to make 11 tricks, I was even tempted to try a double ♠ finese, but no, I saw another better option: a strip squeeze against East. Here we go, I run the ♥ discarding all ♣ from dummy, East has to come down to ♦A bare and I throw him in with another ♦, he has to lead away from ♠J9xx..... And he returned ♠J killing the endplay in less than half a second :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 That is an interesting one fluffly. Like the others in week two so far, it has some warts (flaws), but until something better comes along, it is clearly in the running. Here is antoher flawed one... http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...etchlin=6402769 Once again we have ppilot and his partner bidding a grand slam on a finessee. In a short imp match, strategy comes into play. They were at table two of a swiss imp event with this and one more board to play. Bidding this grand shot them into first place. So this has elements of hand evaluation and state-of-the-match to take into account. This won 11 imps against the field (six clubs was only 0.12 imps) [hv=d=w&v=e&n=sa3hj3dkj953cqj74&w=sjt965ht984da764c&e=sq872hk7dqt82ct92&s=sk4haq652dcak8653]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South Pass 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 2♣ Pass 2♠! Pass 2NT Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♥ Pass 4♠ Pass 7♣ Pass Pass Pass [/hv] H7 H2 HT HJ C4 C2 CA SJ C3 D4 CJ C9 H3 HK HA H4 H5 H8 CQ S2 C7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Matchpoint hand, that JTFANCLUB made a valuable overtricks, scoring 100% http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...1725&tzoffset=0 [hv=d=n&v=n&n=s75h7652da62cakjt&w=s93hjt84dt74cq983&e=sthaq9dkqj985c765&s=sakqj8642hk3d3c42]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - 1♣ 3♦ 4NT Pass 5♥ Pass 6♠ Pass Pass Pass [/hv] Everyone in slam got a diamond lead, but only JTFANCLUB managed to make all 13 tricks. Given the preemptive bid at his table in diamonds, he played the odds of WEST being long in clubs, and he ignored slim chance of dropping the singleton club queen off-sides and hooked club immediately. This gave his 4C, 1D, 8 SPADES. The wrong play at imps, but at matchpoints, the right play. DT DA D8 D3 S5 ST SA S3 SK S9 S7 D5 C2 C3 CT C7 D2 D9 S2 D4 SQ D7 D6 DK SJ C8 H2 DQ S8 H4 H5 C5 S6 C9 H6 C6 S4 H8 H7 H9 C4 CQ The only alternative is to play WEST for both the club queen and the heart ace. This line would call for win first club with ACE (in case singleton club queen with EAST), then run trumps. West would in theory have to come down to heart Ace and three clubs to thw queen, where the last trump would squeeze him to two clubs so that one hook would pick up the entire suit. But as you can see, WEST did not have the heart ACE so that line fails. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 http://bridgebase.lunarpages.com/cgi-bin/h...etchlin=6357969 This hand is from a very large IMP tourney (58 tables), and this pair pulled off the coupe of being the only one to make slam on this hand. A few others got to 6D, several got to 6S.. note 4S was down almost as often as it made, and 6S had no play. Cascais and Tgallery auction wasn't very scientific, but it gave nothing away, and on this hand, was quite effective. Opposite a vulnerable weak two in diamonds, North's hand must be worth a slam try. Most of us would have checked for ACES I guess... on the way. South would show a void response and you still bid the slam I suspect. [hv=d=s&v=a&n=sakq65h5daj2ckjt4&w=sj842ha8742d4c853&e=sthk96d953caq9762&s=s973hqjt3dkqt876c]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] West North East South - - - 2♦ Pass 6♦ Pass Pass Pass HA H5 H9 H3 S2 SA ST S3 C4 CQ D6 C3 HT H2 D2 H6 CT C2 D7 C5 HJ H4 DJ HK DA D3 D8 D4 CJ C6 DT C8 DK H7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaapo Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 6008945 Here's a nice squeeze executed by nigo. The deal was played in an MP tournament on 2004-09-26. 1NT+1 scored 84.04% of the matchpoints. [hv=d=w&v=n&n=sqj32h872da965cq8&w=sak8hq9643dk8ca54&e=st954h5dj7432ckt9&s=s76hakjtdqtcj7632]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South 1♥ Pass Pass 1NT! Pass Pass Pass [/hv] H4 H2 H5 HK C2 C4 CQ CK CT CJ CA C8 H9 H7 D7 HT C7 C5 D5 C9 S5 S6 SK S2 H6 H8 D2 HJ HA H3 S3 S4 C6 S8 SJ S9 C3 D8 SQ D3 DT DK DA D4 D6 DJ DQ HQ S7 SA D9 ST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 The myhands site keeps links only for about 3 weeks... so if the original poster does not include a hand diagram (like in the post above), I will add one.. so don't be surprized too see such additions to your post if you provide only a link. The hand diagram serves two purposes.. it keeps us from ahving to go to the link to see the hand, and weeks or months from now, if someone is reading this thread, the links provided will all be broken, but the hand diagrams will still be here. Three more days or so to enter hands into the contest for the second week.. we have some nice ones in here now... The same amount of time exist to vote in the week one contest... when the week two polls open, the week one polls will close. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Only one more day to submit hands for the week two contest. So far, we have some intersting hands, but in my opinion no clear winner yet. These are intersting hands, good hands, but there must be something better out there... Here is my summary so far... Henri's cold 3NT contract on 22 hcp. Contract is 50%, but with heart king on, easy Stanned and Kitta's grand slam on a hook, not even sure if off an ACE.. I now agree this one should not be here, despite I suggested it. Fluffy matchpoint 3NT making four - the defender should get a huge goldstar for finding the spade JACK back, so maybe this should be nominated for the defender play!!! The hand is flawed for two reasons. First, if he puts up the club JACK (play low surely looks correct to give full value to club nine), 11 tricks are easy (lose 1H, 1D).... Still he gave the defense a lot of problems and they played very, very well to hold it to one overtrick. Ppilot's bridge logic, state-of-event grand slam on a hook. JTFANCLUB's straight foward play for obvious overtrick in 6Spades Tgallery's creative and thougtful leap to 6 diamonds Nigo's squeeze combined with interestng trick one falsecard. As nice as it was, the defense was sort of clueless which subtracts onlyu a little from this gem. Pour over your hands.. and submit the good ones. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Fluffy matchpoint 3NT making four - the defender should get a huge goldstar for finding the spade JACK back, so maybe this should be nominated for the defender play!!! The hand is flawed for two reasons. First, if he puts up the club JACK (play low surely looks correct to give full value to club nine), 11 tricks are easy (lose 1H, 1D).... Still he gave the defense a lot of problems and they played very, very well to hold it to one overtrick. I am sorry, I should had made it clearer, I posted the deal not to nominate me, but to nominate _kafkaf, the way I played the hand was bad, only the bidding has any merit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 No furhter submission to week two contest are now allowed. Please continue to add hands to the week three contest. Voting is now open for the week two contest in a separate thread. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 With one day to go, there is a three way tie for first in the WEEK two contest..so if you haven't voted yet, YOUR VOTE probably will pick the winner.... Go to the week two contest thread and vote if you haven't already... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikos59 Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Operation successful but... I went there prodded by your post, and voted for another candidate (couldn't help it) so the 3-way tie persists! n. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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