1 - European Bridge League

9 th European Youth Bridge Pairs Championship Daily Bulletin, No 1, 08.07.17
The mini-session for the Dutch pair ended with perhaps
the most talked-about deal of the set:
Board 2
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D62
K9863
K83
KQJ7 A105
AK109 J87
— AQJ2
AQ764 J92
9843
543
10754
105
West North East South
Vjekoslav de Pagter Stanicic Hop
1} Pass
2} Pass 2NT Pass
3} Pass 3{ Pass
3] Pass 3[ Pass
6} All Pass
E/NS
East’s 1} was Polish style and West’s 2} was natural
and game-forcing. East’s 2NT showed a weak notrump
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hand with no major. West now knew he had no major
suit fit. Furthermore in Polish Club, with a weak
notrump hand and five diamonds the opening is 1{. So if
this pair had the same agreement West now knew the
opener had at least three clubs.
West duly set clubs as trumps and the next three bids
merely showed values in the suit bid.
With the heart finesse losing a passive lead against Six
Clubs or Six Notrumps can hold declarer to 11 tricks.
However, playing third and fifth leads South led the five
of diamonds. Declarer threw a heart from dummy and
it mattered not what North did. Another heart was
going on the second diamond winner and declarer lost
only a club. The Dutch had a score of -1370, perhaps
their worst matchpoint score of the ten. They finished
with ?? for the session.
Qualification U26, session 4.
by Jos Jacobs
The big question in session 4 was if the halftime leaders
Cerek and Kaya would be able to keep up with the pace
set by the best placed Polish pair of Artur Gua and
Michal Stefanów.
On board 2, they managed to produce another setback
for the Italian mixed pair of Baroni and Sangiorgio as
this was the layout: