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⭐ Today's celebrity: John Kranyak is an 🇺🇸 American bridge professional from San Francisco, California. John captured his first open world title in 2024, and has won many National events in the US.
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[@RH-lv4qm]

Hi John, Very well done with your commentary. I live in Northern OHIO and play bridge against your dad a couple times a week. He is also a big help. Hope to meet you in Memphis in March.

[@dkinrys]

Thanks, John: love your running commentary! Very informative and entertaining. B1: Your Lia raised with only three trumps! My standard 2/1 Lia bid 2C, and then they competed to 3D, so for me, it didn't look like we had a spade fit, so there was no Law of Total Tricks calculation. B2: On the "2 and a half Spades" bid, I also went with just 2S, and I didn't get the "Lia would've bid something else" notice afterwards, so I guess we did right... It's North that should have pushed to game a bit! B3: Good play for "all the tricks:" you beat me, and a lot of other folks. It looks like very few got all 10 available tricks.

[@EditerMan]

WDDLD, I'll take it. Good set, and thanks for the useful commentary. B1, my partner rebid 2C instead of 2S, so when 3D came back to me I had no reason to double. That board was interesting in another way, in that 7 tricks are available in spades, so if no one doubles, 3S can fetch -100 to beat -110. B3, in 2H for some reason I took the H lead, SA and S ruff, then decided to test the clubs; RHO helpfully went up ace. H return, club to hand, HA, then cleared the spades. LHO drew my last trump, but I still got 9 tricks. B4, I overcalled 2H and partner raised, and I took the same 8 tricks for -1.

[@sudoe6407]

Thanks, do come back!

[@daviddouglas5824]

Thanks John. On 1, I competed to 3S thinking I'd score D ruffs in dummy, robot W bid on to 4D which I X for -1. On 3, I played JH on the lead trying to discover where the Q lies, E played the 8. S to the A and D to the Ten on similar logic to you. E now plays AC, C and you make 10 tricks. On 4, I got to 3H, too high! Chopped the other two.

[@PeterDavies1]

WDWLD 1) W - They found 2NT which I doubled - one off 2) D - flat board 3) W - 3NT - partner bid 2D then 3D 4) L - partner also showed heart support but by cuing clubs. went to 3H - and then 3 off - mistakenly ruffed high - and guessed the diamonds wrong. Nice analysis on the decision to stay out of game. 5) D - flat board peter_d playing ACOL

[@VanessaSchmithorst]

Interesting set! B1: My partner never supported spades (why isn't she bidding 2S over 2D, does that show extra values?) so I think she's got a dog 2-5-1-5 or something like that. I sold out to 3D pretty fast, they may well make and we could go for a number if we compete further. B2: Draw, but Lia E is actually good enough to duck the KD on the first round. B3: I didn't stick in the 9 on the 1st D play from hand. It's obviously the right play once you think about it. Then I erred further by playing a C off dummy instead of scoring my HT via D ruff. WDLDD

[@dkinrys]

On B5 (the spade slam), my 2/1 Lia standard still uses both Serious/Non-serious and Last Train. Were you considering changing it so it only uses one or the other (preferably dumping Last Train? Unless a lot of people like it, I dunno...)