Friday, August 6, 2010

Hand from Mixed B-A-M **+

The food was fabulous and the weather was woeful in steamy New Orleans last week.  Here is one of my favorite hands from the Mixed Board-a-Match Teams. Not much of a hand, mind you, but the type that can be action-oriented at the right vulnerability:

♠ void
J9652
J9
♣ J97432

It was the second board of a tense round against young opponents clearly proud of their intricate big club system with transfer responses, etc.  At favorable vul., LHO opened 1 club and partner, Bob, overcalled 1 heart.  RHO made a slow bid of 2 hearts, and while LHO was clearly thinking about what the bid meant before alerting it, I took the matter into my own hands.

Certain that they could make a vulnerable game (or even slam!) in spades, I jumped to 5 hearts, taking away most of their bidding spade and presenting LHO with a dilemma.  The best she could do was double.  RHO passed reluctantly and the king of clubs was led.

♠ void
J9652
J9
♣ J97432

♠ J752
KQ1087
6
♣ A106

Needless to say, we won the board with our score of minus 100 as the opponents can make 6 spades (or 6 NT).  Their hands were:  AK10/A4/KQ10854/Q8 opposite Q98643/3/A732/K5.

It often pays to interfere with a precision or big club bidding system--sometimes Big Time!

See you at the table!

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