Day 3 in China

Today, another beautiful one here, with a little less smog because of yesterday's rain. The Seniors had only two matches scheduled for today, the first against Reunion (a small island between Madagascar and Mauritius), very nice people, but not the strongest of players. Trailing the field. Although there was very little in the match against good opponents, our men played well and the opposition slipped up from time to time, missing a couple of easy games. We took 24 out of 25 victory points. I kibbitzed Jurek on this hand:


In 3rd chair you pick up a 5/5 in the majors 21 count and hear your right hand opponent open 2S, showing 5+ spades and a minor. What is your action? Jurek doubled, lho bid 2NT, rho bid 3C, so Jurek doubled again. Lho now jumped to 5C - P - P back to you! Another red card hit the table and if north passes it should go down 3, for +500.

Stephen chose to bid 5 hearts and now he had to make it! The Ace of clubs was lead, and a diamond switch. Stephen won the Ace, cashed the Ace of hearts, then the Ace of spades, a heart to his king, hooked the spade and claimed..

The auction at the other table was not the same!

Douglas was not impressed with his own 2NT bid but his partner had told him he was allowed to to make the bid with a six loser hand! He figured his losers were three in the majors, two clubs and one diamond!

Declarer made her 3H contract, so we won 310 for 7 imps. Douglas points out that in 4H the correct line of play is (assuming the 2NT bidder has only 10 cards in the minors, which is usual) a 100% to play the A K hearts, escewing a finesse. If you finesse, and lose to the Q, then spades are going to split 5/1 and you don't have the communication to pick up the suit.

I chose to go shopping during the second match! No self-respecting woman would disagree with my choice.. I see that we tied a very competitive Indian team, so we are now back to 3rd.

regards to Canada,
Sandra