Hand of the Week #166 ♠
N E S W 1♥ P 4♥ P P P A nice simple auction sees East-West land in a game in hearts. Over East's opening of 1♥, perhaps West could have been more adventurous with a raise to game through to Jacoby 2NT, but with a flat
Hand of the Week #165 (Solution) ♦
N E S W 2♥ X P 4♠ P P P Counting our losers in hand causes the problem in this hand to become obvious. We have no losers in spades, diamonds or clubs but we do have 4 losers in hearts that we have to do
Hand of the Week #165 ♦
N E S W 2♥ X P 4♠ P P P North starts the auction with a weak 2 in hearts, East doubles for takeout, South passes and West leaps to 4♠. West's bid is based on assuming that East has opened the bidding with their favourite
Hand of the Week #164 (Solution) ♥
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P 3NT P 4♥ P P P Usually the correct way to play a trump contract is to look at the hand with the longest trumps and then look at how to reduce their losers. In this hand
Hand of the Week #164 ♥
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P 3NT P 4♥ P P P West opens 2NT representing their balanced 20-22 count, North passes and East bids 3♦* as a red suit transfer. West 'does as they're told' by completing the transfer to 3♥ (though perhaps
Hand of the Week #163 (Solution) ♣
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P P P Looking at our potential losers in this hand it appears that we have a problem in both black suits. Once our ♠A has been dislodged (and it will be very shortly as the opponents have
Hand of the Week #163 ♣
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P P P South opens 2NT which shows a balanced hand with 20-22 HCP and in response North bids 3♦* as a red suit transfer. Next, South does as they are told by completing the transfer to 3♥
Hand of the Week #162 (Solution) ♠
N E S W 1♥ P 2NT* P 3♣* P 3♦* P 3♠* P 4♣ P 4♥ P 4NT P 5♣ P 6♥ P P P Looking at our losers it would appear we have a problem here, we have: 1 loser in spades and 1 loser
Hand of the Week #162 ♠
N E S W 1♥ P 2NT* P 3♣* P 3♦* P 3♠* P 4♣ P 4♥ P 4NT P 5♣ P 6♥ P P P East starts the East-West only auction with 1♥ and West jumps to 2NT* which this pair are playing as Jacoby 2NT,
Hand of the Week #161 (Solution) ♦
N E S W 1♥ P 1NT P 2♦ P 2♥ P P P Looking at the dummy, it is apparent that there is no ruffing that can happen there so it looks as if drawing the trumps is the right plan here. Ideally when drawing the