Hand of the Week #99 ♣
N E S W 2♣* P 2♦* P 2♥ P 3♥ P 4NT P 5♦ P 5NT P 6♦ P 6♥ P P P South opens their mega hand with 2♣* and North replies with the standard relay of 2♦*. South's bid of 2♥ shows an unbalanced
Hand of the Week #98 (Solution) ♠
N E S W P 1♣ P 1♦ P 2♣ P 2NT P 3NT P P P Counting our top tricks (always good in a NT contract) shows us that we have 2 spades, 3 hearts, 0 diamonds and 0 clubs. With only 5 top tricks we
Hand of the Week #98 ♠
N E S W P 1♣ P 1♦ P 2♣ P 2NT P 3NT P P P East passes as dealer, South opens 1♣, West passes, North replies 1♦ (remember bid 'bottom up' as responder with two or more 4 card suits) and East passes once more.
Hand of the Week #97 (Solution) ♦
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P 4♥ P P P Our potential losers appear to only really be in the major suits here, there is a potential for a slow diamond loser to the ♦Q but our third diamond on dummy can be
Hand of the Week #97 ♦
N E S W 2NT P 3♦* P 3♥ P 4♥ P P P North starts off the bidding with 2NT (20-22 balanced), South replies with 3♦*, a red suit transfer, and North completes to 3♥. South now bids game in hearts as they know their partner
Hand of the Week #96 (Solution) ♥
N E S W 1♣ P 1♠ P 3♠ P P P The heart lead has solved any problems we might have had there as we are certain to trap the ♥J as long as we duck from dummy. You can see that we have 4 immediately
Hand of the Week #96 ♥
N E S W 1♣ P 1♠ P 3♠ P P P West has an opening hand but also has the 'dreaded' 4-4-4-1 shape. The best method here is to open a minor so West starts with 1♣, North passes and East replies 1♠, South passes and
Hand of the Week #95 (Solution) ♣
N E S W 1♥ 1♠ 2♣ 2♠ 3♣ P P P Counting our potential losers in hand, we have: 2 in spades (one certain, one needs to be ruffed), 1 in hearts, 2 in diamonds (they need to be ruffed on dummy) and potentially 1 in
Hand of the Week #95 ♣
N E S W 1♥ 1♠ 2♣ 2♠ 3♣ P P P South starts the bidding with 1♥, West overcalls 1♠, North responds 2♣ (4+ clubs, 1o+ points) and East raises their partner's overcall to 2♠, presumably on the level of the fit. South rebids 3♣ which
Tutorial #29 ♣
Bidding and card play analysis of all four hands