Nowhere To Go

19th June – Board 4: Game All. Dealer West.

Quite often you have to be careful not to make a bid which leads partner with nowhere to go.

	North: S Q H K 10 D J 10 5 C K 10 8 7 5 4 2
West: S 4 H J 9 8 7 5 3 D K 7 6 3 C Q 9		East: S 10 9 7 5 3 2 H Q 6 D A 8 2 C J 3
	South: S A K J 8 6 H A 4 2 D Q 9 4 C A 6

West	North	East	South
No	3C	No	3NT
End

Many people might open that West hand with a weak 2H but that is ghastly and for that matter so is 3C by North although that is what I imagine did happen at several tables. A knee-jerk reaction by South would be to bid 3S, forcing of course, but unless North has some measure of support he may well have to fall back on rebidding his long suit and thus bypassing the most likely making contract of 3NT. So that is what South should bid himself and with the clubs behaving so well a delighted declarer will come to all thirteen tricks on a non diamond lead.