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Canberra Week 2: South West Pacific Teams Day 2
Day 2 was almost a repeat of Day 1 for the Leibowitz team, the team which includes Matt Brown-Michael Whibley and Michael Cornell- Ashley Bach. They had two good wins but suffered a loss to the strong Buchen team on the last match of the day to leave them a little below where they would like to be at the half-way point in qualifying, back in 17th place. The top 8 qualify for the National Open Teams.
The +300 Specialists
We showed Matt Brown and Michael Whibley picking up +300 yesterday. They were at it again on Day 2:
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| West | North | East | South |
| Whibley | Brown | ||
| 1 NT | 3 ♣ | 3 ♠ | Pass |
| 4 ♠ | All pass |
Hindsight is a wonderful attribute but West might have been fearful of club ruffs since he knew where 9 of the clubs were. 4
proved to be the wrong action.
Matt led his club singleton. Michael cashed the 
K for count and then gave Matt a club ruff. Back to the A and another ruff to be followed by a diamond ruff. That was +300. Easy defence, you may say? At 11 tables, 4 made 10 tricks. At the other table in this match, the contract was 3NT which made an overtrick after 
J lead. …14 imps to Leibowitz.
A Not so light Pre-empt
Some pairs get some very good results from light wildish pre-empts. However, there are times when that style does not work. What action would you take if your partner, North, who is known to be aggressive in pre-empting, opened 3 in first seat at equal nil vul:
Your hand as South: AQJ86 
AK J93 AK3
There is no opposition bid to help you.
Against Leibowitz- Erichsen, South opted for safety with 3NT but found their partner to be rather stronger than they would have wished:
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Mike Cornell did not open the North hand which enabled their partnership to bid to the excellent 6 slam which made in comfort after a trump lead.
Other Kiwis in action
Meanwhile, this is the current position of other teams including Kiwis in the top half of the field:
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6. |
Don |
85.54 |
Rose Don-Michael Courtney, Tania Lloyd-Hugh Grosvenor |
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9. |
Jacob |
81.51 |
Nick Jacob- GeO Tislevoll, Ella Jacob- Simon Hinge, Jamie Thompson – Matt Smith |
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23. |
Williams |
71.80 |
Stephen Williams- Andi Boughey, Sam Coutts- Brad Johnston |
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27. |
Crichton |
69.93 |
Ross and Pam Crichton, Graham Wakefield- Michael Pemberton |
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31. |
Fraser-Hoskin |
69.08 |
Jeremy Fraser-Hoskin- Jack James, Chris Ackerley- John Yoon |
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33. |
Foidl |
68.18 |
Gary Foidl – Anthony Hopkins, Brett and Eric Glass |
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39. |
Bach |
65.05 |
Peer Bach- Setsuko Lichtnecker, Sue and Hamish Brown |
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53. |
Genc |
60.38 |
Murat Genc- Mindy Wu, Eva Samuel- Serhat Ozenir |
We will be back again with another update tomorrow.
Richard Solomon
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