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Day 2 in Buenos Aires

A very damp day in Buenos Aires when the lucky players were those staying in the playing area.

Pride of place on this day went to our Mixed Team who won 4 out of 5 matches and sit in 3rd place at the end of the day. They were miserly with imps in conceding just 1 in 2 of their wins and finished with a big win over the hosts.

Our Open team lost to England but thrashed bottom placed Pakistan to finish the day still out of the qualifying positions. Remember, the Open teams need to finish in the top 8 while the other sections see 16 teams advance to the knock-out stage.

Our Women had 2 wins and a draw to remain in 13th place though bad losses to France and Sweden saw the Seniors drop to 17th. The Trans-Tasman battle there was just one by those across the Tasman.

Open

   

NZ vp

position

Mixed

 

NZ vp

position

Opening position

 

12th

       

6th

England

13-38

4.08

   

India

24.18

12.18

 

Pakistan

61-6

19.61

   

Italy

23-39

4.95

 

Bye

   

12

 

 

Brazil

47-1

19.86

 
           

South Africa

14.-1

14.28

 
           

Argentina

51-22

17.68

 

Closing Position

   

10th

       

3rd

                   

Women

   

13th

 

Seniors

   

5th

England

15.-15

10.00

   

France

11.-55

0.76

 

Sweden

 

2.-15

6.03

   

Denmark

11.-3

11.7

 

Spain

 

32-26

12.01

   

Sweden

12.-37

3.45

 

Mexico

 

37-18

15.37

   

Australia

27-33

7.59

 

                   

Closing Position

 

 

13th

       

17th

 

Two deals today from Day 1. We see Pat Carter and Julie Atkinson  from our Mixed Team take advantage of a declarer slip to earn imps 10 imps to reduce the deficit in their loss to Sweden. Over to their captain, Peter Newell:

 

Board 1
North Deals
None Vul

2

Heart-small

K Q 9

Diamond-small

Q 9 7 5 2

A K 10 9

A K J 10 9

Heart-small

J 10 3

Diamond-small

6

8 7 5 4

 

N

W

 

E

S

 

Q 8 6 5 4 3

Heart-small

8 2

Diamond-small

K 8 4 3

Q

 

7

Heart-small

A 7 6 5 4

Diamond-small

A J 10

J 6 3 2

 

West

North

East

South

 

1 Diamond-small

1 

Dbl

4 

4 NT

Pass

5 

All pass

 

 

 

“After 3 matches the Mixed had started with 2 wins and a draw and with the 10 imps we won on this board we were very briefly in the lead overall.

In the Closed Room, Liz and Blair Fisher were in 5Diamond-small and Liz played it carefully and made her contract.

Against 5Club-small, Julie Atkinson, West, led her Diamond-small6  and declarer played Diamond-smallQ and Patrick Carter ducked smoothly. Declarer then cashed the Club-smallA and would have been pleased to see the queen fall. At this point declarer has enough tricks by drawing trumps as long as hearts break or the diamond finesse is onside. Declarer cashed the Heart-smallK and now slipped and gave the defenders a chance by taking the diamond finesse. Julie ruffed, underled her Spade-small AK of  to Patrick’s Spade-smallQ for a second diamond ruff and earn 10 imps.”

Julie Atkinson 1.png    Pat Carter .jpg  

Julie would have been smiling..and a little relieved 
when her partner proced Spade-smallQ. Patrick may have been a little
surprised but he knew what to do. 

And for light relief..well, eventually. How would you handle this interesting collection:

 

A K Q 10 9 5 3

Heart-small

Diamond-small

A K Q 10 4

3

 

West

North

East

South

 

 

 

1 

1 Heart-small

?

 

 

Not what you pick up every day. 1Club-small promises at least 2 clubs.

Would 5Heart-small really be Exclusion Key Card? What would the trump suit be? How to find one’s best fit? There may be better approaches but GeO Tislevoll for the NZ Open Team ended the auction very quickly with probably the biggest jump of the week. Yes, he jumped to 7Spade-small! Partner will surely provide a spade or two and if he has the wrong ace, they might try to cash Heart-smallA. There were plenty of mights and maybes. GeO’s partner, Leon Meier, is still looking for a spade but he was much better in the ace department:

Board 3
South Deals
E-W Vul

A K Q 10 9 5 3

Heart-small

Diamond-small

A K Q 10 4

3

J 8 6

Heart-small

K 10 8 7 4

Diamond-small

J 2

J 10 6

 

N

W

 

E

S

 

7 4 2

Heart-small

9 5 3 2

Diamond-small

9 5 3

K 8 4

 

Heart-small

A Q J 6

Diamond-small

8 7 6

A Q 9 7 5 2

 

West

North

East

South

 

 

 

1 

1 Heart-small

7 

All pass

 

There was nothing to the play as the spade and diamond breaks were both kind. 7Diamond-small seems the better spot as a spade can be ruffed. In New Zealand’s Open section, all bar one country bid a grand-slam, 9 in 7Spade-small and 5 in 7Diamond-small. In the other section, 5 more played 7Diamond-small, 9 again in 7Spade-small and one very knowledgeable pair in 7NT. Again, one pair were in small slam.

GeO, bridge.jpg 
nice one, GeO. 

The right way is the successful way and all those in grand were indeed happy.

Richard Solomon

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