An Interesting Hand from the fourth match

This was board number 4              The dealer was West      N/S vul and E/W vul

Australia vs Poland

 

 

The bidding proceeded as follows

With Australia NS Renee Cooper playing with Francesca McGrath

The Polish EW

 

This went 2 down.

The Polish West was too enamored with his ♥ suit that he ignored partner’s 2♣ bid and has 4 card ♣ suit of his own.

With Australia EW Jamie Thompson playing with Matt Smith

They bid as follows

 

Where 3♥ was suit setting, 3♠ cue, pass denied first round ♠ control, 3NT was A ♦ control and 4♣ was a cue (A/K♣). West did well to pass 6♣ when given a choice of slams.

 

Although admittedly 6♥ is still a pretty good contract, I think there was a little justice that it went down given against a stone cold 6♣ [on your unlucky days, 6♥ would make as well for a small loss.

 

Looking at the other tables there is a bizarre range of scores including one match flat in 7♣ going down and another match flat in 7♣ MAKING!

Posted by Mike and Chris on Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 23:30