Some Problems from the Puerto Vallarta Regional, 11/18

1. Red vs. white, you hold

    AK109x 1098x Kxx x

   (1NT)-? (15-17)

   You play Woolsey. (2 is for the majors.) If you pass, would you act at a different vulnerability?

2. Red vs. white, you hold

    AJ98xx xxxx Q10x —

   You	LHO	CHO	RHO
   2	Pass	2NT	Pass
   ?

   2NT is Ogust. Do you have good rules for what constitutes good suits or good hands? (If you play that 3NT shows four hearts, feel free to mention it, but that's not available this time.)

3. All white, you hold

    KQ7432 KQ AKx AK

   RHO	You	LHO	CHO
   2	?

   (2 was Flannery)

   a) What's your plan? (Yes, just the 24-count.)

   b) The gentleman in the brown suit you were kibitzing overcalled 2. He then collapsed and was taken away in an ambulance. (He'll be fine and surely will reappear in a bridge problem someday.) His partner asks you to fill in. The auction has gone:

   RHO	You	LHO	CHO
   2	2	Pass	3
   Pass	?

   What's your plan?