inquiry Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 This is a thread place holder for hands that are played Starting Sunday October 10th. Simply reply to this topic with a link to hands you want to nominate for consideration. Today is the last day to vote in the week one poll, and the last day to submit hands for the week two contest. You still have a week to submit outstanding hands for the week two contest. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 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. [hv=d=e&v=n&n=sa854hqjt86d7ck87&w=sq2hak9752da3cj42&e=sjt976h43d942c953&s=sk3hdkqjt865caqt6]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - - Pass 1♦ 1♥ 1♠ Pass 5♥ Pass 5NT Pass 6♦ Dbl Pass Pass Pass [/hv] 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helium Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 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.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=6886795 [hv=d=s&v=e&n=s542hq43dq2ckj642&w=s3hkj92daj9865c87&e=st976ht65dk73c953&s=sakqj8ha87dt4caqt]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - - - 1♠ 2♦ 2♠ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♠ Pass 6♠ Pass Pass Pass [/hv] 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:)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 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.... [hv=d=n&v=n&n=sq43hat7dq2cjt743&w=sk982h8542dt7cq92&e=saj75hq9d983cak86&s=st6hkj63dakj654c5]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest North East South - Pass 1♣ 1♦ Dbl 1NT 2♠ 3♠ Pass 4♦ Pass Pass Pass [/hv] 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 valuesC9 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 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. [hv=d=s&v=a&n=sa95hakqdak974ca5&w=s87632h876dq3cq94&e=sthjt9542d5ckt872&s=skqj4h3djt862cj63]399|300|Scoring: IMPWest 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 [/hv] DBL of 2D showed values, 4H is splinter bid, 4NT was a SPADE cue-bid5S was a second cue-bid The play? The play was too easy... D5 DJ DQ DA DK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikos59 Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Well, it is not nice for someone to self-propose, and actuallyI 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 (firsttime I was playing with him) against a Sayc pair,one of them a star player. http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.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), butthey stayed at 3NT minus 2. Not that the stratagem wonmany points, a mere 3.47 imps as you see here because some NSs played at 3NT without any bid by W. Which alsomay give food for thought :lol: http://online.bridgebase.com/cgi-bin/history.pl?...97111753-375872 [hv=d=w&v=e&n=st542ht9872dq32c8&w=s6hqj3dt764cj5432&e=s9873hak54daj9cq9&s=sakqjh6dk85cakt76]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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