United States Bridge Championships

[lenv1]

With eight boards to go (of 120) in thier semifinal, Weinstein and Garner were stuck 36 IMPs. Maybe that's why Weinstein opened 1S on A9752 86 J93 AJ9. In the other room, his opps went +480, so they were about to pick up 11 IMPs. Garner tried 5H (exclusion RKC?) on KQJT86 - AK5 K643 and the rest is history.

5H went down six tricks...

Comments

[erehweb]

Ouch. What contract should they have ended up in?

[pattayabridge]

jumping to (any kind of) Blackwood on your first bid is usually very silly. Here why not use Jacoby 2NT to set spades and then use exclusion blackwood?