Through the Pack at Glenfield

The Seven of Clubs

Last Updated on 30^th December 2006

I provided a vital entry to dummy on this deal from Glenfield Bridge Club on 19^th July 2006
Board 18 Dealer E NS Vul	North ª T942 © A872 ¨ K83 § Q9		This is quite a tricky hand for East/West. There are twenty-four points but no genuine play for any game. Theoretically the best contract is spades; which would make if both black suits break evenly. As it is spades break 4-2, so to make the spade game, you are reliant on the defence not playing diamonds. The same is true of three no trumps and five clubs. However, in four spades and three no trumps the defence get two chances to play diamonds (in spades there is no immediate entry to hand after cashing the ace of spades while, in no trumps, it is possible to use me as an entry but after cashing the king and queen of spades there is no way back to the clubs). So, perhaps the best practical game is five clubs; the defence only gets one chance to lead diamonds and, if they don’t, as soon as East gains the lead, declarer can cash the ace and king of clubs, unblock the ace of spades, cross to dummy with me and discard the losing diamonds on the king and queen of spades. Five of the six pairs played in my suit, two made ten tricks, one eleven and two twelve but Margaret Glover & Peter Tyers, the East/West winners, were the only pair to bid and make the game. The sixth pair declared three no trumps against Margaret Stone & Alan Pardoe. Margaret & Alan found the diamond lead to take this three down for another top to help them to victory as North/South. The travellers, personal score cards and results are online.
West ª KQ7653 © Q3 ¨ J9 § 765		East ª A © KJ65 ¨ T6 § AKJ832
	South ª J8 © T94 ¨ AQ7542 § T4

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6.1.2 Opening Bids	One Club	One Diamond	One Heart	One Spade	One No Trump	Pre-empts
	Two Clubs	Two Diamonds	Two Hearts	Two Spades	Two No Trumps
6.1.3 Responding to an Opening Bid	Simple change of suit	Opener’s Rebid	Responder’s Rebid	Preference	Opener’s Second Rebid	Jump in a new suit	Responding in no trumps
	Limit Raise	Inverted Minors
6.1.3.1 Responding to 1NT	Transfers
6.1.3.2 Responding to 2NT	Transfers	Baron
6.1.4 Conventions	Stayman	Fourth Suit Forcing	Reverse	Crowhurst
6.1.4.1 Conventional Opening Bids	Lucas Twos	Multi Two Diamonds	Weak Twos
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	Fishbein	Defence to 1NT	Halmic	1NT Overcall	Redouble	Simple Overcall
6.1.4.3 Slam Conventions	Blackwood	Gerber	Roman Key Card Blackwood	Splinter	Jump to 5 of a suit	Grand Slam Force	Acol Four No Trump Opening
	Asking Bids	DOPI and ROPI
6.1.5 Doubles	Optional	Penalty	Lead Directional
6.1.6 The Protective Position
6.2 Declarer Play
6.2.1 General Technique	End Play	Squeeze	Finesse	Lose tricks early	Pin	Avoidance	Restricted Choice
6.2.2 Trump Management	Ruffing	Ruffing Losers before drawing trumps	Trump Coup	Ruffing Finesse	Loser on Loser	Coping with bad splits	Cross Ruff
	Dummy Reversal
6.3 Defence	Second Player	Signals	Third Player	Play the cards you are known to have
6.3.1 Defensive Tactics	Forcing Defence	Passive Defence	Merrimac Coup
6.3.2 Opening Leads	Fourth Highest	Third and Fifth	MUD	Top of Nothing
6.3.3 Plays in Third Hand	Finesse Against Dummy	Finesse Against Partner
6.3.4 Entry Management	Unblocking
6.4 Probability
6.5 Glossary of Terms
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