West has 9HCP doubleton in pds suit, so is worth 1NT imo. With the EAST hand I had bid 2 ONLY, if partner had bid 1NT. If partner is silent, you MUST pass.

3 -1 at both tables. Interesting endposition at table 1 after East ruffed with 6 to trick 10: If he now plays a the contract will be -3, because EW have all the high trumps and can crossruff. smothering declarers Jack of s.

At the other table South had a chance to make the contract, if he had played J to the 9. trick. Table had only s left, so it makes no sense to ruff once more, but play against the K and guess rite.

At table 1 I opened 2 in third hand due to vulnerability. In 1. or 2. hand I never preempt with 5 only and/or a 4-carder.Opponents bid a nice 4 anyway. Btw. I like Norths X. Much better than a simple 2 . Against 4 we can get only 1S 1D and 1C.

At table 2 WEST decided to pass my hand, North opened a standrd 2NT and South didn't Stayman raising to 3NT with 4333. I sympathysize with this bidding. You have 9 ricks from the top and no chance for the 10.

Both my 2 and opening 2NT with major 5-carder and raising 2NT to 3NT with 4333 are agressive, but very effective tools. Sometimes they don't pay. But you must look on the long run.

A very lucky hand for our opponents. 4 is a terrible contract, but is made, because every card is rite. We had no chance to beat. He played very well making double finesse at trick 2. The bidding was crazy. They had an misunderstanding about Drury.
Btw. I hate Drury and its variants. My 1. and 2. hand openings are very light and I open in 3. hand not more light, so I need no such instruments and play may system unchanged.

I sympathysize with the bidding at table #2. You should stay in 2.
I had bid 1NT with the South hand not 2 and had passed partners 2 response.
The game has 20% at most. Difficult to calculate the correct odds.
North should make the -finesse with the Q and make 11 tricks too. no reason to assume that EAST has played from J10xx in .

We gained from a defensive slip by opponent, who forgot to take his A in time.

Bidding at table 2: I hadn't bid 3 . You have LTC 5 and want to play 4 anyway. & is out of sight when pd bids only 2. So don't fool around telling opponents your distribution. (They may make use of this information) Just bid game at once.

Lucky for us: they gambled a slam and I was happy to lead the A of s. But they had only 11 tricks anyway, so the slam is down against any lead.

BTW.: In my opinion the North hand is NOT a 2 club opener.
I posted the hand in BBF and the votes are 4:1 for 1 diamond.

Same contract at both tables. You must be in 4 . Very unlucky, that opponents get 2 ruffs and 2 Aces. Ver good game-contract.

Btw. I sympathysize with my partners weak jump in s.
If you play Bergen, without intervention bid 1, you are too strong for any limit raise.
LTC is 7 with great support in . You may bid 4 at once, disregarding any slam-chances.

Our bidding was ok until 4. Now my partner should pass or bid 5, or at least pass my 5. My bid of 4 didn't show strength but , that I could not stand 3NT. I showed 10 (6+4) red cards at least. 4 makes 5 losing only 2 trumps.
Against imperfect defense 6 had been made, if s were 22 distributed. LOL

Our opps bid an terrible 3NT-contract and went down well deserved.
BTW. Better lead the J from J108x. Pays in long run.

If North plays 3NT the defense must be very accurate: Spade lead, after Club Q heart to the A and Spade back. I have won many 3NT-contract, which are not so good. LOL

I decided to pass partners opening. A "stomach" decision. The book bid playing 2/1 is the forcing 1NT (as opps did). Opponents in 3 Club and had 9 tricks from the top. 1S+2H+2D+4C.

At the other table North was very cautious. A double in this situation shows 16+HCP. I had doubled for sure. But he was afraid, because he held only 3s, I guess. So opponents were allowed to play 2 Spades-1. in IMPs no problem, but in MP MNorth MUST reopen.

Our opponents bid an terrible slam again. North has no reason with 4333 and 17 HCP to make any move beyond 3NT, after partner limits his hand to 11-15 HCP.
REMEMBER: Subtract 1 HCP if 4333 so your Maximum is 31.

I'm not happy with the rebid of 2NT. Even with the heart stopper you should show your weakness and club 6-carder with 3.

4NT after 2NT is understandable, but 6NT is outright nonsense.

In 4NT count your tricks after the heart lead: 1H+2D+6C you need 1 more. Best shot is to try a small spade from the table to the third trick after going to tablke with a diamond. Maybe EAST is sleeping..

At our table we had a perfect bidding to the diamond partial and I had to struggle against 4/0. After 9 tricks I had a nice endplay position. South must play the mrked trump-finesse for me (as he did) or play spades in the doubele-chicane, which I had ruffed at the table and made the finesse myself. I was lucky finding the club- Jack.

At the other table WEST didn't open my 11HCPs with 55 in minors. Not understandable. So we found the 2 contract and made 3. Difficult to analyze, if it were better to develop spades instead of ruffing clubs and weaken yourself with another diamond ruff.

BTW: The North hand is a nice example for the use of jumps to the 3-lvel after 1NT showing major resp. minor-2 suiter strong or weak. This convention is in BBO_ADV_CC and 2/1-FD. More see on Sheps site.

Same bidding at both tables. EAST must raise to 4 with LTC5 and 2 top honours in .
I'm not sure, what is the best line to play. I played the 34% chance that the K of s is onside and the spades 32. Don't know if there is a better plan. But opponents donated me with the contract and I misclicked. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

At the other table North did very well not to cover spade 10. If he had, there were another entry to the hand to finesse the trump 8.
Btw. diamond return after winning spade K gives a spade trick to North for sure.

Very difficult analyis, difficult to see at the table. Has someone deep-finesse to ask?

I posted this one as problem in BBF. Very interested what the "experts" will say.

East has an absolute minimum 5332 12HCP, bad suit. The pass after 2 is mandatory, if you don't play support-doubles showing a spade 3-carder in this situation. Raise to 4 spades after my 3 spades is only understandable with lost concentration. My partner was upset, because opps hadn't accepted my UNDO-request after the misclick. I guess in such a match there should be no UNDOS. So I wasn't upset.

At the other table South was allowed to play 2 (imperfect bidding by opps) and to make his contract. They had a lot of possibilities to beat him. Very bad defense opps.

We could have had 45 IMPs without any mistake or unconcentration.

You see you win matches not because you do many clever things, but because you
avoid mistakes