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VBA Bulletin June 2013 Victorian Bridge Association Bulletin June 2013 Editor: Bill Jacobs DEN TALERSTOL If you would like to see more teaching and Ben Thompson more teacher development near you, you can help by supporting our application. You can write in support to Sandra Mulcahy, the ABF’s I’ve been National Marketing Officer talking ([email protected]), preferably before about the the end of June. You can also write to me importance ([email protected]). of being nice everywhere I’ve been since I became President. Sue Read has now heard me speak about it at three different clubs, but she’s still very cheerful about hearing the message. Thank you Sue for your patience, and I hope everyone is happy to hear me talk about it Have you entered the more in the future (because I can guarantee that I will)! 2013 Victor Champion Cup to be held I’ve also been talking about attracting new Bayview Eden Hotel, South Melbourne people to our wonderful, maddening, June 6 - 10 challenging, glorious game. Many clubs and many people have talked to me about the A Gold Master Point Event difficulty of running bridge lessons at smaller clubs, and the follow-on problem of helping Pairs Events: Thursday, Friday, June 6-7 new players transition into playing duplicate. McCance Senior Swiss Pairs There’s clearly a need for a state-wide Sara Tishler Women’s Swiss Pairs teaching and development program, and the Wally Scott Open Swiss Pairs VBA has been working on exactly that over VCC Restricted Swiss Pairs the last six months. Under 50 MP Swiss Pairs We’ve been developing and testing a co- Teams Events: Saturday-Monday, June 8-10 ordinated set of short introductory and Victor Champion Cup Swiss Teams beginners courses that we want to take “on Charlie Snashall Restricted Swiss Teams the road” on a regular basis around Victoria to help all clubs attract, teach and retain new All days commence at 10 am and conclude by players. “Short” is the key word there. That 6:15 pm (exept Monday which concludes at is what will enable us to get our Victorian 1:45 pm) teacher to a different club or region every month, and co-ordinate follow-up. Tournament Director: Sean Mullamphy Convenor: Kim Frazer Fully developing and delivering that program Enter online at the VCC website as extensively as we would like takes more money than we can afford in Victoria right www.vba.asn.au/vcc now, so we’re applying to the ABF for funding Phone enquiries: VBA (03) 9530 9006 to support the new program (which also has We'd love to see you there. a teacher development and accreditation component too). Page 2 VBA Bulletin June 2013 FOR STARTERS That suggests that you should avoid hearts Bill Jacobs and lead a diamond instead. Did you also consider leading a top club? Playing in a matchpoint duplicate, you hold: That’s not the worst lead in the world. However, we will assume you lead the 3: Q5 J953 J943 . AK6 A6 You are the dealer, and no-one is vulnerable. Q876 Do you open this hand? K762 . J104 Q5 N J953 A simple guideline for deciding whether to W E J943 open with a marginal hand is the Rule of 20. AK6 S You add your high-card points to the number of cards in your two longest suits. If it comes to 20 or more, then open the bidding. Declarer plays low from dummy, partner It’s not a perfect formula, but it is a plays 10 (thank-you!) and declarer wins A. reasonable guideline. Next comes .2. Your move. On this hand, you have 11 HCP and two 4- card suits: 11+4+4 = 19. So the rule of 20 suggests you pass this hand. The rule says that you need 5-4 shape, or a 6-card suit in This hand falls into a fairly common category order to open the bidding with 11 points. that might carry the label “Mystery”. It is by no means obvious what you should do. You pass and hear the following auction from your opponents: One thing you can do is to count the points. Declarer has 15-17, you and dummy have LHO Partner RHO You 21, so that leaves partner with between 2 Pass and 4 points. So partner will have a queen, Pass Pass 1NT Pass king or ace, and maybe the spade jack. 2. Pass 2 Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass In circumstances when there is nothing obvious to do, it’s often best to fall back on 1NT is 15-17 points, and 2. is the Stayman Hipprocratic principles: try to do no harm. In convention: RHO has four spades. a defensive context, this means passivity: make a play that gives nothing away. What do you lead? On this deal there are clear risks in broaching spades, hearts or diamonds. You can construct for yourself layouts in each of those Fourth highest of your longest and strongest suits where if you lead the suit you give away is a very fine formula for deciding your lead a trick. against notrump contracts. On this hand, there is a tie between hearts and diamonds Clubs is the only suit that is safe to play. You should win your ace and king of clubs, and (ignoring the fact that you have 5 but only play a third one. Declarer will probably have 4!). four clubs, she won’t have five (do you see why?), and therefore partner will have xxx or To break the tie, go back to the bidding. LHO Qxx in clubs. Either way, declarer will get used Stayman, but was uninterested in whatever tricks are owing to her in clubs, and spades when opener showed that suit. nothing more. Clearly your LHO was actually interested in a heart contract, so she will almost certainly Here is the full layout: have a 4-card heart suit. VBA Bulletin June 2013 Page 3 Dlr: West A6 ANC Seniors Team selection Vul: nil Q876 K762 1 S. Klofa – D. Harley . J104 2 F. Beale – R. van Riel Q5 N 109832 3 M. Chrapot – S. Arber J953 K104 W E J943 105 ANC Youth Team selection . AK6 S . 972 KJ74 1 P. Hollands – J. Howard 2 J. Thompson – E. Pattison A2 3 N. Howard – M. Henbest AK8 . Q853 Congratulatioons to the 6 pairs above, who will be representing the state at the upcoming ANC With X-ray vision, declarer can make the in Adelaide. contract, but more likely losing finesses in the majors will bring her undone. If you help . her with a play in a non-club suit, the contract will be made. TEST YOUR BIDDING Points to remember: Responding to partner’s preempt The Rule of 20 is a sound guideline in deciding whether to open marginal hands. No one vulnerable, partner deals It translates to: Partner RHO You - Open all 13-high-card-point hands 3 Pass ? - With 12 HCP, perhaps pass with 4333 shape, but open everything else Pre-emptive opening bids at the 3-level are - With 11 HCP, you need 5-4 shape, or a designed to play havoc with the opponents, 6-card suit but they can occasionally cause problems for - With 10 HCP, wait for a 6-4 shape, or poor partner. 7-3-2-1. Partner’s 3 opening, non-vulnerable, It never hurts to recall the auction: right suggests a 7-card suit, about 6-10 points and through the play, but particularly on a hand that can take approximately 6 tricks opening lead. Without even mentioning on its own. This is the Rule of 2 and 3: non- the suit, responder had actually shown 4 vulnerable, an opening preempt should be on hearts. a hand within about 3 tricks of the contract. A vulnerable preempt shows a hand about a Defence is hard, no doubt about it. trick stronger than this: within 2 tricks of the Counting the points is a valuable aid to contract. good defence. It doesn’t help on every deal, but often it will give you a general How do you respond to partner’s 3 opening view of partner’s total assets. with each of the following hands? (a) AK42 3 AQ92 . KQ65 . (b) KJ42 103 A962 . A65 RECENT STATE EVENT RESULTS (c) A42 1093 J9864 . 32 Victorian Mixed Teams (d) AQ 3 AKQJ942 . K103 1 S. Hinge, J. Thompson, E. Caplan, W. Jacobs, B. Thompson (e) A2 3 KQJ1042 . KJ65 2 E. Samuel, J. Fust, R. Livingston, P. Hill 3 E. Weisinger, C. Lachman, R. Drew, (f) AQJ654 3 42 . AKQJ P. Marley Solutions over page. Page 4 VBA Bulletin June 2013 TEST YOUR BIDDING - SOLUTIONS COUNCIL NEWS Partner RHO You Grand National Pairs 3 Pass ? At its recent AGM, the ABF Council discussed (a) AK42 3 AQ92 . KQ65 in detail the issue of the cancellation of the GNP, the National pairs competition for 4. If partner can take 6 tricks, you should players of less than Life Master status. It was be able to provide 4 more with all those decided that although the existing format for honour cards. Don’t fall into the trap of the GNP was not viable, and that entries had bidding 3NT. Imagine partner with declined over the years, there was still a xx KQJxxxx xx . xx significant case for a National competition for How are you going to make 3NT? What these players. Various formats were about 4? discussed, and the Management Committee was assigned the task of finding a suitable replacement (hopefully for the 2014 year).
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