MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
BRIDGE BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE
NORTH (D) ♠ Q 7 2 ♥ A 9 8 6 ♦ J 9 2 ♣ A K 2
WEST ♠ A J 6 4 3 ♥ 10 7 ♦ K Q 10 8 6 ♣ 6
SOUTH ♠ 10 8 ♥ K Q 4 ♦ A 7 5 ♣ J 9 8 7 5
The bidding: NORTH EAST
1 ♣ Pass SOUTH Pass 2 ♠ Dbl T WEST
1 ♦(!) 1 ♠ Pass
3 ♦ Pass 3 NT(!!) All Pass Opening Lead — ♠ 3
he 2010 Vanderbilt Teams went to
six Europeans: Pierre Zimmermann-Franck Multon, Michel and Thomas Bessis, Geir Helgemo- Tor Helness. In the final they edged a U.S. team: Fleisher-Kamil, Martel- Stansby, Levin-Weinstein. Fleisher faded in the
stretch. With Lew Stansby- Chip Martel East-West, South’s (T. Bessis’s) sec- ond-round double merely showed values, but his 3NT was an eye-blinker. Martel led a low spade: deuce, nine, ten. South led the A-K and a third club. Martel signaled no liking for dia- monds. Stansby took his queen and led ... the five of spades. South made his game. It was hard for East to
believe South had bid 3NT with those spades. The questions were, would West have overcalled, vulnerable, on J-8-6-4-3? With A-10, would South have bid 2NT at his second turn or played differently, and could East ever beat the game? (If West had weak spades and, say, the A-K of diamonds, 3NT might be cold.) In the caldron of a major
team final, world-class pairs can falter. DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A J 6 4 3 ♥ 10 7 ♦ K Q 10 8 6 ♣ 6 Your partner opens one
heart, you respond one spade and he rebids two hearts. The opponents pass. What do you say? ANSWER: Your partner has minimum opening values but a six-card or longer suit. If his pattern were, say, 2-5-3-3, his second bid would have been 1NT. You don’t have quite enough strength to force with a bid of three diamonds, but you should invite game. Raise to three hearts.
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