A Hand from the Italian Open Teams Championship

By Ana Roth • 26 April, 2012

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Bocchi-Sementa-Duboin-Madala, ganadores CE 2011

In Italy, from  Saturday April 28 to Tuesday May 1 2012,  in the traditional Palazzo dei Congressi di Salsomaggiore, the best italian teams are playing the Open and Ladies Italian Teams Championships in the Categories: Eccellenza, Serie A and Serie B.  In the Eccellenza Category teams will compete for the title of “Champions of Italy”: 10 teams in the Open and 10 teams in the Ladies, while the last three places will recede to Serie A.
After de first RR round Lavazza Team was second and had to play in the second round against Bongiovanni (5th). Lavazza finally won by 22 to 8 VP.

This is the first hand from Lavazza-Bongiovanni match.

Board 17. Dealer North, Nobody Vulnerable

In the table Lavazza: E/W Duboin-Sementa and Bongiovanni: N/S Romanski-Comella

 

J 9 3
8 5
J 10 3
A J 10 7 3

A Q 7 2
K Q 10 3
7 4
Q 8 4

 

K 8 4
A 7
A K Q 9 8 6 2
6
 

10 6 5
J 9 6 4 2
5
K 9 5 2

West               North                   East              South

Duboin           Romanski            Sementa         Comella

                          Pass                        1                     Pass 

1                   Pass                        21                   Pass

2NT2              Pass                         3                    Pass

33                Pass                         44                  Pass

45                Pass                         4                    Pass

4                 Pass                          5                    Pass

6                 Fin

1) Strong

2) Relay

3) Values

4) Cue-bid

5) Define Diamond as trump

With no opps intervention, Duboin-Sementa used all their artillery to arrive to the cold slam.

In the other table Lavazza: N/S Bocchi-Madala and Bongiovanni: E/W Fornaciari-Gianardi

West               North                   East              South

Fornaciari      Bocchi               Gianardi       Madala

                           Pass                       1              1

Double            1NT*                      2             4

Double            Pass                        5             The End

* Clubs

 With his two calls Madala occupy too much space, opponents couldnt bid comfortably and just declared the game. Although E/W made ​​12 tricks the hand cost them 11 IMPs.

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