The BBO ACBL Club Bulletin #16

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 in a recent team match I played in Edinburgh. I was sitting in the south seat, and had an interesting defensive decision to make at trick 2.
I have hidden declarer's and partner's hand so you can test your defensive skill. They will be revealed later.

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Some of you might have spotted the fact that declarer could have still made the contract. Here is how he should have played:

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Hand 2:
This hand was played on Monday, October 19th, in the 6pm Speedball game .
The traveler can be seen here.

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

Dan Israeli