The BBO ACBL Club Bulletin #13

By Dan Israeli (ACBL_17)

Welcome to this week's ACBL Club Bulletin.
Every week I will bring a few interesting hands played in our very own ACBL games, and try to show you how the hand should be bid and played. Of course, Bridge is not an exact science, so I will try to bring more than one angle. I hope you will find this interesting and useful.

If you come across an interesting hand you'd like to share and have analyzed, or if you have an interesting story to tell or a question to ask, feel free to email me.
My email address is ehhehh@gmail.com.

A few preliminary notes:

1. I try to keep the bidding simple. The Basic Sayc system is used, but mostly it is common sense bridge, added with a few simple gadgets.

2. Some boards will require a more scientific approach, but nothing really major. I believe good bridge can be played without 200 pages of agreements.

Hand 1:
This hand was played on September 3rd at the 8pm Speedball game.
The traveler can be seen here.

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Hand 2:
This hand was played in the same game on September 3rd.
The interesting part of the hand is that west needs to put the brakes on time.
The traveler can be seen here.

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Hand 3:
For today's last hand, I have a nice treat for you. A double dummy problem.
The hand was sent to me by Ken Eichenbaum. Thanks Ken!

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If you think you solved it, feel free to email me your solution and I will tell you if it is correct.

That's it for today.
I hope you had a good time.
See you next week!

Dan Israeli