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09/09/2025 Game Post-mortem Video (R)

52 minutes

Mon, Sep 08, 2025Mine UsluelDuplicate TournamentsNews

Thanks for playing in the Wolpert Bridge Duplicate game. We hope you enjoyed the game. 

For further info about the topics mentioned in the post-mortem video, take a look at the following lessons:

Board 1: End Plays and Frozen Suits    

Board 2: 3rd and Low Leads 

Board 5: Michaels and Unusual 2NT and Dealing with Michaels and Unusual 2NT 

Board 7: Power Doubles - Part 2

We used the same dealset as the 01/17/2023 game. 

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Geoffrey StewartOct 6, 2025

Was surprised you suggested that systems might not be on on board 7 - it didn’t occur to me to bid other than 3D transfer here and would have bid 3C with 4 card hearts. Are there other circumstances where we overcall NT (as effectively after the power double) where stayman and transfers would be off ? I usually only change things if a bid is not available - say 1D (1NT) 2D - here I can’t bid 2C so we need some other agreement for Stayman - is this a good general agreement to have i.e. it’s the same unless it has to be different as they’ve taken away space ?

Josh DonnTeacherOct 26, 2025

Systems aren't on when someone doubles then bids notrump. Usually by then too many suits have been bid by the other players, and also partner is limited by their action (maybe pass) on the prior round.

Geoffrey StewartOct 6, 2025

Hi Gavin - funny I did both your Michael’s classes this afternoon and seem to have somewhat misapplied your method. I thought the south hand was too strong for 3C and made a 2H cue bid showing club support. Guess this was quite a lot of an overbid ! Did end up in 3NT though after showing spade and heart stops and made it when they played one round of diamonds and switched to HK.