Tuesday 13 November 2012

Monday 12 November

Playing N/S with Adrianne came joint first with a Butler score of 41.  We didn't do anything much, just steady play and were gifted two scores by two 3NTs going down when the opponents should have been in 4S.
This was one board where Adrianne made a good score for us. Phoebe opened 1S and Adrianne overcalled 3H.  Robina bid 4S and I went to 5H passed back to Robina who despite the adage about the five level belonging to the opponents quite reasonably bid 5S.
Adrianne found the perfect lead of TD which Declarer ducked and that was KD, KS and AH to us for 1 down.  A number of people managed to go off in 4S (diamond ruff if Declarer goes up with AD) so 5Hx wouldn't have been such a good score, but you make your own luck.




It is amazing how many people pass the South hand, personally I love three Aces, but when you add those intermediates this is a solid hand.
Anyway Adrianne opened 1N against Bobby and Ian which was passed out. A spade lead and holding up KC always defeats this, but this our lucky night. Bobby led 8H and Adrianne came to 8 tricks.






There was nothing else of note, we just did what we should have done on each hand and with a couple of gifts came to a good score.

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