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General Bridge Discussion => Interesting Play Hands => Topic started by: OliverC on May 18, 2019, 10:27:07 PM
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Metin (Arda85) and I had an interesting session this morning with Metin trying his hand at the Complex Sys (with a good degree of success). One hand well pointed up the inadvisability of interfering against multi-style openings until your Opps have clarified their hand somewhat.
At game all I opened 2NT on the following motley collection:
!S AJ1042
!H J10843
!D Q
!C KQ
My LHO clearly assumed I had the Minors or Clubs and overcalled 2 !H . Metin doubled and I was perfectly happy to pass that for penalties. Metin was in the very happy position of knowing that I must have the Majors, because he was sat with
!S K3
!H 9
!D AK106
!C AJ10972
Poor Declarer was sat with !H AKQ52 and the Spade Queen and Dummy just had !D Jxxx. When the dust settled we let Declarer off with -4 for 1100 (could have got one more with perfect defence). One pair found and made the vastly inferior Spade slam but nobody found the much better Club slam and +1100 was pretty good.
This kind of situation is similar to Brozel/DONT Doubles over 1NT and defending against a Multi. You really are generally better off letting Opps define their hand-type before you jump in with both feet. Sometimes if you're 4th-in hand, you don't have that option, but when you're 2nd-in-hand over the Multi-style opening, you usually can count on a 2nd chance.
We had one nice bidding hand for the system, which was rewarded with a top. Metin responded flawlessly on this:
NS Vulnerable, Dealer West
North
!S J8
!H AK104
!D AK
!C 108643
South
!S AK1074
!H 63
!D AK
!C AKQ5
Bidding (nothing from Opps)
North South
1 !D 1NT(1)
2 !C (2) 2 !D (3)
3 !H (4) 4 !C (5)
4 !D (6) 4 !S (7)
5 !C ( 8 ) 7 !C (9)
(1) 14+ any shape
(2) 5+ Clubs
(3) Range Beta
(4) Max, 6 Controls
(5) Gamma in Clubs
(6) No Top Honour
(7) Epsilon in Spades (To guard against !S xxx)
( 8 ) 3rd round control of Spades
(9) Knew North couldn't have the !S Queen with AKAK in the Reds, so wasn't remotely tempted to try for 7NT.
The Clubs were 3-1 but the Spades were 3-3 so no problems. Amazingly, nobody else found 7 !C and the Grand was worth 15 IMPs. Overall, Metin showed a very good grasp of the system, so please give him a game if you get the chance.