Melbourne Bridge Club MCC Kew 397 Barkers Rd Kew 3101 Phone 9817 3936 ABN No: 88 791 813 415 Website: Directors: Ian Mansell Sandra Mansell Newsletter for week ending 13 August 2017 North - South East - West Monday Day Joan Smurthwaite & Ann Perrott Mim Blomquist & Therese Best** Night Joanne Brumby & John Arnold Susan Moore & Christine Urdevics Tuesday Day Brenda Glyn & Lynne Dorgan** J Morris-J Goodey=L Johnstone-R Cross Night Carolyn Hart & Denise Rozner Luke McNamara & Phil Cohen Wednesday Betty & Tom Blom Jude Adams & Lucy Zammit** Friday Michael Bugler & Haddon Storey Suzy Narita & Akiko Stark Saturday Congress Pairs 1st Bradley Wein & Stephen Sharp 2nd George Lovrecz & Philip Fent Hands of the week Saturday 12 Aug Board 13 Dealer N All vul Where are your tricks coming from? After two passes West opens 1NT. East uses Gerber to see if they have a major suit fit, and when West denies a major suit East jumps to 3 to show 5 hearts and 10+ HCP. This encourages West to ask for Aces, and when East discloses the missing Ace West jumps to slam. South leads the Q and East should consider the likelihood of making their contract. There are essentially 4 spade tricks, 4 heart tricks, a diamond and two club tricks one short. – 1 There is potentially a heart loser unless the K and J are a doubleton. 2 The diamond finesse work but why risk it? might – 3.You could ruff the clubs hoping you could set up the fifth club; but what if they break badly? Therefore the only way to make your contract is to finesse the Q, cash the A, now play 4 round of spades discarding a diamond on the fourth spade! North will probably ruff and lead a diamond. You rise with the A, ruff a small diamond, and discard your Q on the K. Contract made! The Melbourne Bridge Congress Pairs was held on Saturday 12th August. The winners were Bradly Wein & Stephen Sharp. 2nd were George Lovrecz & Phillip Fent. 3rd Jenny Gray & Linny Persson. The next Red point events will be held on Tuesday 5th September at 7.30 pm and Saturday 26th August at 1.00 pm. All welcome! Sandra and Ian
Melbourne Bridge Club MCC Kew 397 Barkers Rd Kew 3101 Phone 9817 3936 ABN No: 88 791 813 415 Website: Directors: Ian Mansell Sandra Mansell Newsletter for week ending 13 August 2017 North - South East - West Monday Day Joan Smurthwaite & Ann Perrott Mim Blomquist & Therese Best** Night Joanne Brumby & John Arnold Susan Moore & Christine Urdevics Tuesday Day Brenda Glyn & Lynne Dorgan** J Morris-J Goodey=L Johnstone-R Cross Night Carolyn Hart & Denise Rozner Luke McNamara & Phil Cohen Wednesday Betty & Tom Blom Jude Adams & Lucy Zammit** Friday Michael Bugler & Haddon Storey Suzy Narita & Akiko Stark Saturday Congress Pairs 1st Bradley Wein & Stephen Sharp 2nd George Lovrecz & Philip Fent Hands of the week Saturday 12 Aug Board 13 Dealer N All vul Where are your tricks coming from? After two passes West opens 1NT. East uses Gerber to see if they have a major suit fit, and when West denies a major suit East jumps to 3 to show 5 hearts and 10+ HCP. This encourages West to ask for Aces, and when East discloses the missing Ace West jumps to slam. South leads the Q and East should consider the likelihood of making their contract. There are essentially 4 spade tricks, 4 heart tricks, a diamond and two club tricks – one short. 1 There is potentially a heart loser unless the K and J are a doubleton. 2 The diamond finesse might work – but why risk it? 3.You could ruff the clubs hoping you could set up the fifth club; but what if they break badly? Therefore the only way to make your contract is to finesse the Q, cash the A, now play 4 round of spades discarding a diamond on the fourth spade! North will probably ruff and lead a diamond. You rise with the A, ruff a small diamond, and discard your Q on the K. Contract made! The Melbourne Bridge Congress Pairs was held on Saturday 12th August. The winners were Bradly Wein & Stephen Sharp. 2nd were George Lovrecz & Phillip Fent. 3rd Jenny Gray & Linny Persson. The next Red point events will be held on Tuesday 5th September at 7.30 pm and Saturday 26th August at 1.00 pm. All welcome! Sandra and Ian
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