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Canberra Week 2: South West Pacific Teams Day 2

Day 2 was almost a repeat of Day 1 for the Leibowitz team, the team which includes Matt Brown-Michael Whibley and Michael Cornell- Ashley Bach. They had two good wins but suffered a loss to the strong Buchen team on the last match of the day to leave them a little below where they would like to be at the half-way point in qualifying, back in 17th place. The top 8 qualify for the National Open Teams.

The +300 Specialists

We showed Matt Brown and Michael Whibley picking up +300 yesterday. They were at it again on Day 2:

West Deals
Both Vul
3
10 7 6 5
A K
A J 10 9 5 2
K J 8
A Q J
Q J 10 3
Q 6 3
 
N
W   E
S
 
A Q 6 5 4
4 3
8 7 5
K 8 7
 
10 9 7 2
K 9 8 2
9 6 4 2
4
West North East South
  Whibley   Brown
1 NT 3  3  Pass
4  All pass    

 

Hindsight is a wonderful attribute but West might have been fearful of club ruffs since he knew where 9 of the clubs were. 4Spade-small proved to be the wrong action.

Matt led his club singleton. Michael cashed the Diamond-smallK for count and then gave Matt a club ruff. Back to the Diamond-smallA and another ruff to be followed by a diamond ruff. That was +300. Easy defence, you may say? At 11 tables, 4Spade-small made 10 tricks. At the other table in this match, the contract was 3NT which made an overtrick after Club-smallJ lead. …14 imps to Leibowitz.

A Not so light Pre-empt

Some pairs get some very good results from light wildish pre-empts. However, there are times when that style does not work. What action would you take if your partner, North, who is known to be aggressive in pre-empting, opened 3Club-small in first seat at equal nil vul:

Your hand as South: Spade-small AQJ86   Heart-small AK  Diamond-small J93  Club-smallAK3

There is no opposition bid to help you.

Against Leibowitz- Erichsen, South opted for safety with 3NT but found their partner to be rather stronger than they would have wished:

North Deals
None Vul
9 7
J
A Q 10 8
Q 10 7 6 5 4
10 4 3
Q 10 9 7 3 2
6 5
J 2
 
N
W   E
S
 
K 5 2
8 6 5 4
K 7 4 2
9 8
 
A Q J 8 6
A K
J 9 3
A K 3

 

Mike Cornell did not open the North hand which enabled their partnership to bid to the excellent 6Club-small slam which made in comfort after a trump lead.

Other Kiwis in action

Meanwhile, this is the current position of other teams including Kiwis in the top half of the field:

6.

Don

85.54

 Rose Don-Michael Courtney, Tania Lloyd-Hugh Grosvenor

9.

Jacob

81.51

Nick Jacob- GeO Tislevoll, Ella Jacob- Simon Hinge, Jamie Thompson – Matt Smith

23.

Williams

71.80

 Stephen Williams- Andi Boughey, Sam Coutts- Brad Johnston

27.

Crichton

69.93

 Ross and Pam Crichton, Graham Wakefield- Michael Pemberton

31.

Fraser-Hoskin

69.08

 Jeremy Fraser-Hoskin- Jack James, Chris Ackerley- John Yoon

33.

Foidl

68.18

 Gary Foidl – Anthony Hopkins, Brett and Eric Glass

39.

Bach

65.05

 Peer Bach- Setsuko Lichtnecker, Sue and Hamish Brown

53.

Genc

60.38

 Murat Genc- Mindy Wu, Eva Samuel- Serhat Ozenir

 

We will be back again with another update tomorrow.

Richard Solomon

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