Alex and I gifted a few imps to them at the start and we were down 3-24 imps after nine boards, but then a very solid performance by the team restricted them to just eight imps over the next 23 hands and we won, going away, by 86-32 imps.
Unusually there were a lot of imps flying about due to cardplay. Most of the big swings featured declarers in the same contract and, mostly, our lines were either sharper or the defence was more testing. But, naturally, there were some bidding problems and we scored a slam swing on this hand:
Alex made a good decision at the start of the auction to ignore his spades (at least initially) and show a game-forcing balanced hand. When I showed 5-5 and extras, bidding the slam was trivial.
At the other table, after one heart - one spade West made the reasonable decision to rebid two clubs. Clearly on this hand rebidding three clubs works well but it is a borderline game force given what everyone responds on nowadays. After fourth-suit (game) forcing both hands were maximum for their actions but they struggled to find a way to show this and finished in three notrump - nine imps for us.
Holding a good lead going into the final set you want nice boring hands. Second up for me was:
It is Love All. What is your opening call?
The final will be against Mike Best's team from Cardiff.
4 comments:
4H. Don't forget to double 6C later to stop partner from sacrificing!
Well done. Good luck in the final.
Unsurprisingly...4H :)
Both Wests opened four hearts. This was doubled by North and, a little surprisingly, passed out.
Partner has the singleton king of hearts and ♦Kxx.
You had to drop the doubleton queen of diamonds to make the contract.
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