26th January – Board 1: Love All. Dealer North.
The two blog hands today were only played once last Thursday due to the format of the competition, but I had already played them in a match a few days previously and I report here what happened in that match. Here a useful gadget helped N/S off to a flying start.
West
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North
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East
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South
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2S*
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3S
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4S
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5H
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End
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2S was the so-called Lucas 2, showing five cards in a specified major and four or five cards in a minor, but with a limited hand of 5-9 points. East bid 3S probably intending it to be a
Michaels type bid but whatever the reason South had an easy raise to game. With a round or two of bidding taken away E/W subsided in game when the heart slam is a 50% proposition depending as it does on the position of the king of hearts. With no barrage in the replay E/W bid the slam giving his side a useful opening board.
