Mike Yuen — Mike talks about bridge

Another Toy.

We are having a beautiful sunny day at The 84th North American Bridge Championships.

This afternoon, Maurice and I played in the final of the BAM with Jim Aitken, Pat Dunn, Ray Loftis and Ken Christiansen, all from Seatlle area.

Board 16. Dealer West. E-W Vul.

I as East, held  AJ9   AJ10962 7 ♣ K42

We had this auction. 

West North East South
1  Pass 2NT* Pass
3   Pass  4   DBL 
Pass*  Pass 6   Pass
7   All Pass     

2NT-Jacoby 2NT, strong heart raise. 3♠-short spades. 4-RKC for hearts. Pass-0/3 key cards. 6 -ask for third round control in clubs.

Maurice claimed 7 after the spade lead.

At the other table. 

West North East South
1  Pass 2NT* Pass
2♠*   Pass  4NT*  Pass 
5  Pass  5NT*  Pass 
6 * All Pass     

They didn’t have this toy and could not be sure if they had a club loser. Stopped in the small slam, made seven. 

This was the deal. 

Dealer: West
Vul: E-W
North
Q652 

KQ853 
863 
 
West
♠ 4  
 KQ743 
 A1064
 AQ10
East
AJ9 
AJ10962 
 7
K42 
  South
 K10873

J92 
J975 
 

 We won the board.

 

 

 

 


5 Comments

angelaNovember 29th, 2011 at 8:14 pm

nice toy

viennacoupNovember 30th, 2011 at 1:52 am

Don’t you mean “2nd round control?”

MichaelNovember 30th, 2011 at 2:44 am

6 level bid ask for 3rd round control of that suit. Either Qxx , KX or x.

David Memphis MOJO SmithDecember 5th, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Toys are fun to play with — nice job.

judeDecember 8th, 2011 at 7:50 am

hi michael – glad to see you are having fun!!!!

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