The BBO ACBL Club Bulletin #7

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 at 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, part A:

This hand was played last Friday in the 4pm speedball game.
If you are curious to see the field results, you can check the traveler for it here.

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Hand 1, part B:

This hand was played last Wednesday in the 8pm speedball game.
If you are curious to see the field results, you can check the traveler for it here.

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Hand 2:

This hand was played last Wednesday in the 8pm speedball game.
You can see the traveler records for it here.

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You can find more information about the "Smolen" convention on the web, or you can also email me and ask.

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

Dan Israeli