Your Call 08
From the same session, this one could be titled “To bid or not to bid”.
Board 7 from Friday 2/08/24
Dlr South All Vul
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Q9
A86542
K62
Q7After two passes, North opens 1H. East passes, having no sensible option. What should South do?
Despite (lesson one again) having too few high card points to respond, the general consensus seems to be: bid 1S and pass whatever partner bids next. Within reason that seems sensible. Unfortunately partner makes the worst possible rebid, 2H, and South will get the blame when North goes down two or three. Unfortunate, but South can take comfort by quoting Deep Finesse: “EW can make 3NT, my bidding interfered with theirs.” It is of course a moot point, would West have backed in with either a double or 1NT in the pass out position?
Being a passed hand, it seems reasonable to come back in, at which stage East might well bid 3NT. When one defender is known to have most of the missing points, playing 3NT with balanced hands and close to a 24-25 count is so much easier.
There were a few pairs who did play and make 3NT but despite that, North playing in 2H down two was not a good result for NS. Have we learnt anything from this? I suspect not, but it makes for some interesting discussions, doesn’t it?
