DEAL 20
These Practice pages can be utilized in several ways.
The recommended method is for two partners to be in vocal contact, each
looking at the page in a different computer - perhaps one with a laptop.
Using this method one partner would start by clicking on NORTH, the other on SOUTH.
Somewhat less satisfactorily, the partners can use a single computer, and alternate
looking at the display, again one as NORTH, the other as SOUTH.
As a last resort, one person can click back and forth between screens.
Start by clicking one of the buttons; when the bidding is complete click the BIDDING
button to check the "recommended" bidding.
NORTH
East is the Dealer and she opens 1♣.
Bid this hand with your partner.
Neither opponent bids again.
SOUTH
East is the Dealer and she opens 1♣.
Bid this hand with your partner.
Neither opponent bids again.
| WEST | NORTH | EAST | SOUTH |
|---|
| | | 1♣ | 1♠ |
| pass | pass | pass | |
SOUTH has 12 points, but with two 5-card suits worthy of an overcall. There isn't really a
right and wrong here, but it usually works out best to overcall in the higher-ranking suit. That
leaves open the possibility of bidding the second suit later.
In this Deal, after SOUTH overcalls 1♠, that later possibility never happens because
everybody should pass.
NORTH
♠ K 7 2
♥ Q J 5 4
♦ 6 3
♣ 9 8 6 4
SOUTH
♠ A J 10 8 5
♥ 6 3
♦ A J 10 8 5
♣ 3
