TOURNAMENT
DIARY: Friday, Aug 22
Ed Antosz, junior team manager
This
is a big day for us, a do or die day. Our team had a good opening
and then a few rocky matches but finished strong yesterday. This
morning we are playing Poland and then Denmark this afternoon
on vugraph. We need to win big this morning and then do well against
the Danes. Our third match is against Chile but we are favourites
to win that one, and win we must. The end of the day will see
a realignment of the standings and hopefully we will be moving
up.
HAND ONE: As North you pick up  6
 1073  Q10987532
 A - what is
your opening bid non vul against vul? While many chose a 4
opening in the first round match, Ian Boyd selected the magical
5. The whole
auction was : 5D p p x and Ian took 11 tricks when East failed
to find a heart lead.
HAND
TWO: Another interesting tale from the same match against Australia
came on board 8. (See Hand Two at right)
West is dealer with no one vul. The auction began
1D
2C P P
The 2c bid was alerted by south to west (Gavin Wolpert) as "We
overcall on s***."
The auction concluded
X
P P P
and
when the dust had settled Canada was plus 1100 on the hand. This
was a 12 imp gain as the final contract at the other table was
3NT making 4.
More tomorrow. (or later).......
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Q10987532
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