Problems from the Culver City Sectional '95

All at matchpoints, playing 12-14 NTs, Flannery, generally standard methods otherwise.
  1. Favorable, you hold

     S:KJ94 H:7 D:Q32 C:K9876

    YouPartner
    Pass1H:
    1S:*?2D:
    ?

    1S: showed five+ spades. Do you?
    2D: was what you were trying to avoid...
    Now what?

  2. Unfavorable, you hold

     S:K652 H:A7 D:KJ75 C:J93

    CHORHOYOULHO
    Pass1D:Pass1S:
    Pass2S:PassPass
    DblPass?

  3. None vul, you hold

     S:8 H:Q973 D:A963 C:QJ62

    CHORHOYOULHO
    1D:Pass1H:1S:
    Dbl12S:?

    1 Dbl = 15+ balanced (not a support Dbl)

  4. Both vul, you hold

     S:73 H:10982 D:QJ97 C:972

    CHORHOYOULHO
    1D:1H:Pass3H:1
    3S:Pass?

    1 Limit raise

  5. Unfavorable, you hold

     S:KJ2 H:8 D:Q87 C:AK9842

    CHORHOYOULHO
    1D:1H:2C:3H:1
    Pass24H:5C:?Pass
    Pass5H:?

    1 Preemptive
    2 Unbalanced hand
    ? Do You?

  6. Favorable, you hold

     S:QJ8 H:986 D:1097 C:J1054

    LHOCHORHOYOU
    2H:1Dbl3D:2Pass
    3H:DblPass?
    1 Weak 2
    2 Natural

Answers
Jeff Goldsmith, jeff@tintin.jpl.nasa.gov, Feb. 16, 1996