posted April 2010

IMP Tables

4 South Africans at an IMP Table on BBO

Playing with Barbara Smith, against Sharon Lang and Peter Bircher, we reached 4 via a transfer sequence.

Bd: 6 Dlr: East Vul: EW North S 64 H KQ10984 D Q5 C 543 South S J872 H A2 D A732 C AK8 West North East South sharrie barmer nu nu newmoon Pass 1NT Pass 2D Pass 2H Pass 4H Pass Pass Pass Trick 1: CQ C3 C2 CA

You are staring at two spade losers, a slow loser in diamonds and one in clubs.

QUIZ: How do you play this?

Solution:

If you proceed to draw trumps immediately, you will quickly find that entries to South's hand are limited. If you exit with a spade after trumps, the opponents will continue the club attack.

Delay trumps!   The only way to make this   is to play a small diamond at trick 2 from hand. Set up the discard for the club first!

The full hands were:

North S 64 H KQ10984 D Q5 C 543 West East S A103 S KQ95 H 7653 H J D K106 D J984 C QJ7 C 10962 South S J872 H A2 D A732 C AK8

There are two types of beggars at Joubert Park: those that drew trumps too fast, and those that delayed it too long.
Hope you know how not to join them...

Here is the LIN file