DEAL 12

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
 
 Your partner, SOUTH, is the Dealer.
 Bid this hand together.
 The opponents do not bid.
     
 
 SOUTH
 
 You are the Dealer.
 Bid this hand with your partner.
 The opponents do not bid.
     
 
WESTNORTHEASTSOUTH
 1NT
pass3♠pass4♠
pass4NTpass5♠
pass6♠passpass
pass


NORTH knows there are enough points for slam, but she is worried about the trump suit. SOUTH's support doesn't guarantee more than three ♠s, and if they are not headed by the Queen she could lose a trump trick.

Her RKCB bid relieves her mind when NORTH claims two Key Cards PLUS the ♠Q. She bids 6♠ (and hopes for a 3-2 trump split!).
 
NORTH
♠ A K 7 5 3
8
K Q 7 2
♣ K Q 4

SOUTH
♠ Q 8 6
Q J 3
A J 5
♣ A J 6 5