A nice psychic bidding by Zofia from Poland

This deal happened in RR14 China vs Poland of 17th World Youth Championships. For me, I prefer defense and play to bidding. That's why bidding problem seldom exists in my blog. But today I couldn't help to writing something on bidding. I never thought such a nice bidding would appear in youth team games.

Board 3

Dealer: South

Vul: E-W

East

♠ AJ975 South West North East

♡ K64 2♡* Pass 2♠* Pass 2♡: 5♡+ 4 minor, Weak

♢ 62 3♣ Pass 3♡ ? 2♠: NAT, NF

♣ AQ8

If you were East, would you bid in the first or second round? Anyway, I passed in the game. When I saw the dummy's cards, I almost dropped from the chair, marveling at her courage and insight.

Dummy

♠ K2

♡ A75

♢ JT954

♣ J94

Due to North's psychic bidding, we succeeded in losing a game. 11 IMPs to Poland!!!

The full deal

Board 3

Dealer: South

Vul: E-W

Actually, it was also hard for me to deal with even if she bid 3♡ rather than 2♠. However, the pressure to opponents is quite different. Instead of losing temper, it does encourage me that I don't want to be defeated by her. Anyway, it didn't make sense for me which was miscalculated by Zofia, I thought.

Comments

Online training: Please remember to detect the honors beforehand !!!

This deal happened in our weekly online training last Monday. I couldn't concentrate my attention due to the lack of card sense online. Rookie mistake should be mentioned here. Board 13 Vul: Both Dealer: North East West 1NT 2♣ 2♡ 4♡ Lead: ♠7 South led ♠7 while North followed ♠J. And I won with the ♠Q. Now what's your plan? ♠7 seemed to be doubleton. Firstly, you couldn't avoid to lose 1♠, 1♢ and 1♣ at least. In other word, you must make a right guess in who had ♡Q. For me, due to the leading, I had supposed South hold long ♡ and he hadn't led trump, so I just played casually, cashing ♡K, then ♡J->♡2->♡5->♡Q... Oops... Doing some detection first to find more clues might be a better choose. Sending out ♢ first and whatever who won, he had no choice but to return ♢ or ♠. I could win in hand. Crossing to table with ♣K. And now the distribution was clear. If one A for each, now it was your guess time, n...

Interactive Hand Testing

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