Through the Pack at Glenfield

The Ace of Hearts

Geoff Mead, my holder on this deal from the match between Glenfield A and Leicester Bridge Centre B on 19^th March 2003 had the pleasure of watching the opponents bid seven hearts. He doubled.
Dealer S Game All	North S KJT642 H – D T87 C JT76		I will not divulge the sequence, nor the card play but the match score card records that they finished two down and conceded 500 points. This more than cancelled the efforts of another Bridge Centre pair who bid and made six hearts. Both Glenfield pairs stayed in four hearts to record a ten imp gain on the board. Of course, from East’s point of view, had the Ace of spades been the Ace of hearts, the grand slam would have easily made. I would recommend the sequence one club from West, one heart from East, two clubs from West, three diamonds from East (a new suit at the three level is forcing to game), three hearts from West, three spades from East (a cue bid showing first round control of spades), four clubs from West (a cue bid showing first round control of clubs), five no trumps from East (the Grand Slam Force asking “how good are your trumps, partner?”), six hearts from West (“I have one of the top three hearts, partner”), pass from East. Of course, it is all rather more difficult if North makes a weak jump overcall of two spades over one club. East bids three hearts and if South bids four spades, West and North should now pass and East can bid five diamonds. West’s hand is beginning to look powerful and might have enough to venture six hearts.
West S A53 H K65 D 9 C AK9852		East S – H QJT432 D AKQJ42 C 4
	South S Q987 H A987 D 653 C Q3

The next card is the King of Hearts.

The previous card was the Two of Spades.

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5.1.4.1 Conventional Opening Bids	Lucas Twos	Multi Two Diamonds	Weak Twos
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5.1.4.3 Slam Conventions	Blackwood	Gerber	Roman Key Card Blackwood	Splinter	Jump to 5 of a suit	Grand Slam Force	Acol Four No Trump Opening
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5.1.5 Doubles	Optional	Penalty
5.1.6 The Protective Position
5.2 Declarer Play
5.2.1 General Technique	End Play	Squeeze	Finesse	Lose tricks early	Pin	Avoidance
5.2.2 Trump Management	Ruffing	Ruffing Losers before drawing trumps	Trump Coup	Ruffing Finesse	Loser on Loser	Coping with bad splits	Cross Ruff
5.3 Defence	Second Player	Signals
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5.3.2 Opening Leads	Fourth Highest	Third and Fifth	MUD	Top of Nothing
5.3.3 Plays in Third Hand	Finesse Against Dummy	Finesse Against Partner
5.3.4 Entry Management	Unblocking
5.4 Probability
5.5 Glossary of Terms
6 Through the Pack