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cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|
cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|
cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|
cr|590|cb|5180|cg|5130|
cr|6255|cb|6255|cg|6255|
cr|7120|cb|7255|cg|80|
fh|170|ff|1Times New Roman|fi|1y|fb|1y|fu||
fh|250|ff|2Times New Roman|fi|2y|fb|2y|fu||
fh|379|ff|3Arial|fi||fb||fu||
fh|410|ff|4Arial|fi||fb|4y|fu||
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^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|4|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series II - Deal III }
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|fp|4|ht|y|at|^- The analyses are kindly made and shared for you by Larry Cohen.
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|fp||at|Welcome to the third deal of the Series II.  |pg||

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|fp||at|This is the third week in a series of four deals, all relating to negative doubles. This is a must-play convention, and you should play it on all levels (not just through the 2- or 3-level) 

To read more about this, please see: ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=27^*N



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bg|6|st||qx|Board1|3d||ah|SKY&&Larry|ah|S II - D III|
pn|South,You,North,Parnter,South,West,North,East|md|1SKQJ32H54DQ9CQ764,ST54HAJT9D65CK532,SA76H632DKJ432CJT|sv|ew|sk|w|nt||ht|c|at|You hold these West cards in second seat with: |pg||mb|pp|nt||ht|c|at|RHO passes as do you. |pg||mb|p1d|at|LHO passes and partner opens 1@D in fourth seat. |pg||mb|1s|at|RHO overcalls 1@S |pg||
at|and you have an easy bid.|pg||mb|d|nt||ht|c|at|You make a negative double, of course.  |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Sometimes I wonder what players did before Al Roth invented this convention in the late 1950's. |pg||mb|2s|nt||ht|c|at|LHO raises to 2@S  |pg||mb|3h|at| and partner bids 3@H. |pg||mb|p|nt||ht|c|at|RHO passes - and you? |pg||




nt||cq|3|lb|*mYour call is?^Pass~3@S~4@h^1|nt||ht|c|at|You should pass, too. |pg||at|You have already shown your hand and partner is not inviting you to go to game.  |pg||at|He is just competing in hearts.  |pg||nt||ht|c|at|If he had a better hand  |pg||ub|2|mb|4h|at|he could have either bid 4@H himself, |pg||ub|1|mb|d|nt||ht|c|at|or he could have doubled 2@S (to show extras - this is NOT a penalty double) |pg||mb|p3cp3h|at|- and then later bid 3@H to show a good 3@H bid.  |pg||ub|5|mb|3hppp|nt||ht|c|at|Everyone passes and since it is boring to turn the dummy, |pg||sk|ew|pc|sk|at|let's hop over to partner's seat and play the hand on the @SK lead:|pg||nt||ht|c|at|In suit contracts, I recommend counting losers.  |pg||hc|s98d5c8|at|It looks like 2 spades, a club and a diamond. |pg||lc|s98d5c8|hc|dt8|nt||ht|c|at|But, what will you do with all of your extra little diamonds? |pg||lc|dt8|hs|wh|at|Trump them in dummy, of course.  |pg||ls|wh|nt||ht|c|at|Also in suit contracts, a major decision is : "Draw trump or postpone drawing trump." |pg||at|If you draw trump here you are a dead duck. |pg||hc|da|nt||ht|c|at|Instead, you should take your ace of diamonds |pg||lc|da|at|and give them a diamond. |pg||hc|dt8ht9|nt||ht|c|at|Then you can eventually ruff 2 diamonds in dummy |pg||lc|dt8ht9t|at|and take 9 tricks for a good score.
|pg||mc|9|sk|y|pg||up|1|nt||ht|c|at|Next week we continue with negative doubles. |pg||

pf|y|nt||ht|c|at|You can now experiment with how the play of this deal could go by selecting the cards that you want to play for all 4 players. Click on the cards that you want to play. 

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