HSOG Bridge Christmas Party

For the Juniors Christmas party I made up some boards that had already been played at the Buchanan Bridge Club. That meant even if we played a board only once I could generate a score for each pair by comparing with people who had played it previously. I chose hands from a Matchpoint evening with 26 tables, so each deal had a maximum score of 50 (2 points from beating each of the other 25 pairs), so I could double those scores to get a percentage.

For example:

When this deal was played our East-West pair duly made 3NT+2. So they get the same score as the other pairs who made 3NT+2, 27/50 or 54%. That turned out to be from our most experienced Junior pair, Niamh & Rachel, who won the event with 64%.

Although the double-dummy solver says the optimum contract is 7♥ it needs trumps 3-3, so is far from wise. 7♣ is better, but actually (as is usually the case) you can forget about the grand and bidding any slam will get you a good score.

Perhaps West opens 1♦, North ovecalls 2♠ East doubles, West bids 3♣ then East can drive to 6♣. Would our Senior pairs have bid it? Maybe.

The full results of hands from the Buchanan club can be found here: Buhcanan Results 10th May (then click on Travellers).