7th April – Board 9: E/W Game. Dealer North.
Preempts are probably one of the major causes of headaches for the non-preempting side, because quite often one has to take one’s feet of the ground and hope for the best. A good rule of thumb for the stronger of the defending side is to imagine that his partner has about eight points, and when responding to, say, a take-out double the partner of the doubler has to remember this and not get too carried away with eight points. On the featured hand however I think 3NT is a much better bid than anything else, and with the West hand in question that would lead to a simple enough contract. But even if you swap the West and South hands 3NT is still likely to make. 3S over 3H is the worst selection although as it happens West would raise to game. But now he would pass 3S if you swapped the West and South hands and game would still make. I have to say that I think the preempt itself is grotesque although I dare say I would bid it too. In my experience 7-2-2-2 hands play like a left boot.
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West
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North
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East
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South
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3H
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3NT
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