Tuesday Pupil Game 5 August 2025

It was a pleasure to run today's 5-1/2 table game today and get to meet everyone. Congratulations to John/Bill, Kathy/Alan, Martha/Sue and Sue/Martha for the mp finishes today.  The lesson was about defensive signals - attitude, first discard, count and Trump Suit Preference.  Hopefully you were able to agree and practice some of these signaling techniques.

I was asked about how you could have bid to and made the slam on board 8 below.  The key is for the opener to jump to 2NT after their 1H open and responder's 1S response.  Once responder knows that opener has 18/19 points for their 2NT jump. they can add their 14 points to see that they are in slam territory.  I can see the bidding going 1H, 1S, 2NT, 3D (forcing), 3S (courtesy showing 3 spades), then 4NT, 5H (shows 2 aces), then 6S. 7S makes with a H finesse of the 10.

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