January 20 2014 by Simon Fellus CsbNews Italy correspondent
The 7th edition of the Federale Open Tournament – Rome Challenge just finished. The field comprised 30 teams.
The victory was for the Spasso Food team:
SPASSO FOOD: Intonti, Gullotta, Saccavini, Fellus, Fellus and Sabbatini.
The Maggio team was the runner up: (Maggio, Marani, Delle Cave, Latessa, Grillo) and third arrived the DESSI’ team (Versace, Agrò, Lauria, Morgantini, Mazza, Dessì). [ilink url=”http://www.bridgelazio.it/home/risultati2014/2014-classifica-savelli.pdf”]All the Results [/ilink]
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Today I want to tell you about two hands, one of them taught me something, the other one helped my team to arrive to the podium:
Board 8 Dealer West None vuln.
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Robin Fellus |
North |
Simon Fellus |
South |
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pass |
pass |
pass |
1 |
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X |
2 |
2 |
Pass |
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3 |
X |
3 |
The End |
After South’s 1
opening bid, Robin Fellus, with his passed hand, decided to double instead of showing his two colored hand or his 5 cards heart suit. After North’s diamond support and my free 2
call, Robin continued forcing the bidding with a 3 cue-bid.
North doubled and I instead of a Pass (forcing, I have a maximum and key cards), didnt evaluate correctly my hand and decided to call 3… this ended the bidding.
As you can see a “nice and cold game” with only 18 points. The balanced distribution and the 3 spade spots was what discouraged me to bid the game, but I think that if I would had stopped and just give it a little more thought, I’m sure that I would have declared the game.
The important thing is to know how to evaluate the hand, relying on my partner that with a passed hand, in his second bid doubled and afterwards invited to game (it sounds strange…NO?). With regard to the points: they are not so important after you have found a good fit with a good distribution. Fortunately, at the other table, the result was also 3 + 1.
Board 1 Dealer N None vuln.
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West |
Ilaria Saccavini |
East |
Robin Fellus |
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1 |
Pass |
1 |
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pass |
3 |
Pass |
4 |
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The End |
The lead was the 
A, and West continued with another club.
I ruffed in dummy and played a small diamond to the 9. West won the trick with his J and left his hand with a spade. I won in my hand with the 
K and let run the 10, East won with his A and returned another spade, after winning the trick in dummy, I returned to my hand with a diamond to the A, and played a heart, West contributed with his Q. I played dummy’s K to continue with the Q, when East played low I pitched a club. I draw trumps and claimed my 10 tricks 😆 .
Another 20 points game. At the other table the opps played only 2 making three…