Board 2
East Deals
N-S Vul | | ♠ | A K | | ♥ | K Q 10 4 | | ♦ | A Q J 7 | | ♣ | Q 9 2 |
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| ♠ | J 8 7 5 3 | | ♥ | A 6 | | ♦ | K 10 9 3 | | ♣ | 10 8 |
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| | | | ♠ | Q 9 6 4 | | ♥ | 9 5 | | ♦ | 6 2 | | ♣ | A K 7 6 5 |
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| | ♠ | 10 2 | | ♥ | J 8 7 3 2 | | ♦ | 8 5 4 | | ♣ | J 4 3 |
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NS 3♥; NS 2N; EW 2♠; NS 2♦; EW 1♣; Par +100: EW 3♠×−1
| West | North | East | South |
| | | Pass | Pass |
| Pass | 1 ♦ | Pass | Pass |
| 1 ♠ | 3 NT | All pass | |
In ACOL north has an opening bid of 2 NT, over which South can sign off in 3H (or if using transfers sign off via 2D). 3 NT rebid is an overbid given pard has passed the opening round (strong hands have difficult making even 25-26-27hcp games because there are few if any entries to the weak hand in order to take finesses etc).
The balancing 1S by West is reasonable. The opening lead of AC is also reasonable as it gives a look at dummy before switching to pard's suit, and if pard gets in he knows the KC can be cashed.
At another table North opened 2H and South raised to 4H. This doesn't seem to be standard system bidding.
North doesn't have a 3NT bid. Its better to open 2NT but having opened 1D and learnt partner has less than six points, jumping to 3NT is too much.
ReplyDelete2NT All passed or if south can make a weak takeout into 3H then they would be reasonable. However you probably need to play transfers to be able to make a weak takeout as 2NT 3H would be needed as a force to offer a choice between 4H and 3NT.