A Hand from the Italian Open Teams Championship

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.

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

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.