The Wednesday Morning Tournament

[@Leone640]

Thanks Rob!

[@nielsblom5642]

Very good, thx

[@Hiker97]

Missed you last week. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

[@yehuditrackover4159]

Great fun learning

[@JC-xq2ec]

You teach well and you make it look easy. If I could only stop time to think about all the good stuff, I'd be at least mediocre!

[@bridgelesson]

@@JC-xq2ec thanks so much. it just takes time. Keep practicing and seeing hands 🤓.

[@ChrisHasney]

It sounded like you said that HBO was going to be filming the Reisinger. If so that's exciting!

[@bridgelesson]

@@ChrisHasney BBO 🤓

[@dougedwards3537]

Fun round, nice explanations of bidding. That situation in Board 6 has gotten me in trouble before, couldn't find a bid that made sense. Obviously the 3S raise works best here but doesn't match the description.

[@ChrisHasney]

Concur. Really tremendous set for advancer study, both bidding and play.

[@carolprovost2876]

Good morning from LA

[@sashacooper9326]

On B2, a small diamond to the 10 would still get you 1 more trick. W wins the J, but he's still endplayed. On the Q lead from dummy, I think E can actually do better by not covering - then if you finesse on the second round, W wins but can exit with a third D; if you cash A and then exit, E wins the king.

[@bridgelesson]

@@sashacooper9326 nice

[@yxgao564]

wonder what the robots take 2S after x as on board 6

[@bridgelesson]

@@yxgao564 we can load that into a table probably and find out.

[@yxgao564]

@ thanks rob. gonna try it

[@bridgelesson]

@@yxgao564 lmk what you find would be interesting

[@yxgao564]

@@bridgelesson LHO opens 1D, we X, pd bids 1S. 2S 14-18, 3S 17-19, 4S 16+, all are total points and show exactly 4-card spades. Interestingly, both 2D and 2NT allow 4-card spades, showing 18+ total points w/o or w/ D stopped. Probably 2NT (and show S later) was the bid with the robots, but would not provide a plus score on that particular board unfortunately.

[@yxgao564]

Oh, I missed 1NT. 1NT shows 19-21 HCP, also allows 4-card spades. With 2 HCP, pd would pass. The robots' system are not compatible with shapely strong hands especially with a void, slam is almost impossible to investigate. I would blast 6S if I had a D void.