Nothing to see ... there's a void

Earlier this month Memphis MOJO blogged on A void: Don't leave home without one. Last night I took this advice to heart as I held six voids in 33 hands (probability of holding at least one void is 19:1) and naturally this led to some interesting bridge.

I was playing with Anne, one of our victorious Lady Milne team, and we seemed to handle most of the randomness as our 59% proved to be 2% clear of the field. No doubt it was the 37 pages of notes that she sent for the evening - is this worse than Sam's 10 pages for the 2-board knockout? Perhaps not.

I thought we scored well against Sam and Fiona when I appeared to make the right decision:

Two diamonds, two spades and one club gave us +500 against a non-vulnerable game and it was a top when we played it early on, but in the end we only scored 60% as a raft of +650s hit the scoresheet with people (presumably) doubling 5♥.

Later on we scored a massive top when Anne made an excellent decision in the auction. Naturally our opponents could have done slightly better, but the board was lost very early in the piece:



Anne's decision to double, rather than bid on with her 4-7 distribution, made it fairly irrelevant how tricks declarer actually made as two down would have been a top for us, but we put declarer to some tough decisions and misguesses resulted in +1100.

It'll be four weeks before I'm back at the Russell Cup, what with visitors and the Summer Nationals, but at least no shortage of bridge.