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Winning the BAM Teams in San Francisco

A well bid hand, and how we won a national bridge championships.
By chip My Real Name big star Featured Noozer
Published: 27 November 2007 05:12 pm
- After a few previous posts on hands I watched, I finally began playing in the open Board-a-match (BAM) teams  at the North American Bridge Championships in San Francisco.  BAM is a funny form of scoring (sort of matchpoints with a 1 top). Two teams play the same hand (each team sits NS at one table and EW at the other) if you do better than the pair with your cards at the other table you win the board (for 1 point) if you do worse you get zero, if both results are the same score you get 1/2.  My team (Lew Stansby, Aubrey Struhl-Mike Becker, Larry Cohen-David Berkowitz) won the event by almost 3 points (a pretty large margin). 124 teams entered and after the first day the top 60 advanced to the final day. We had a good score the first day of 32 on a 26 average. The second day our teammates did well in the afternoon scoring 18 to move us up to second place, just over a point behind first. At night both our pairs had excellent games to score 20 out of 26 possible.

Here is one hand where my partner, Lew Stansby did an excellent job of visualizing my hand.



Lew knew I had 4 hearts, 6 or 7 diamonds and likely a spade void. What should he do now? 

Lew decided I would have a decent play for slam with as little as - Kxxx AKxxxxx xxx, so he tried 4N blackwood with his working 8 point hand! I showed 2 keycards and a spade void, so we rested in 6D.




A few final points on the hand. 6D makes easily if you cash the ace of diamonds and ruff 3 hearts, giving the opponents the high trump. If you take a "safety-play" and finesse the ten of diamonds (to guard against KQ6 of diamonds), then East will eventually over-ruff the 4th round of hearts for down one. Also note that East's light 1S opening made it easier for us to get to slam.

At the other table they stopped in 5D so we won the board.
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Jimb100 - Nov 28, 2007 9:50 ameye
I think there were 2 great reads on this hand - first the view that Lew took in bidding 3 spades and secondly Chip's bid of 4 Hearts. In matchpoints, it would have been a very high score.
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