Fabulous Friday - What Fun!

What a fun afternoon that was! A session of bridge that had a quiz on the scoresheet and prizes during the session, followed by fun in the social area with a multiple choice trivia quiz and lots of free nibbles. All sponsored by Aspire Wealth Advisors . Many thanks to Prue Hart and Jacqui Ecclestone for organising and preparing the nibbles - it took a while, I was keeping an eye on them and occasionally being given an early sample. Also thanks to John Nelson for the quiz; it’s an excellent format and kept everyone involved. Malcolm Davis from Aspire Wealth Advisors attended and took part in the quiz.

Prizes during the session : (1) the first person to make a doubled contract (that went fairly quickly); winning the last trick with a card of the same rank as your table number (before and after the tea break); winning the last trick with the diamond seven (beer card) - if declarer you had to make the contract, if defending you had to beat the contract. There was also a prize for the score that stood out the most to the director, this went to Kate Pinniger & Sally Savini for plus 2200 when their unfortunate opponents played in three hearts redoubled going four off vulnerable.

The scoresheet bridge quiz looked at two options for building a trick:

AJT opposite 32 and taking the double finesse which gets two tricks 76% of the time versus

J432 opposite AK5 and playing the A, the K and leading up towards the remaining J4.

(Q1) Which is better? (Q2) By how much? (Q3) if the second hand had J932, then how much did that nine change the odds?

I have to say that Ray Wood answered it almost perfectly but wasn’t there afterwards so the prize went to Anne-Louise Dubrawski who wasn’t that far off either.

The answers for those still reading are (Q1) J432 opposite AK5 is Better (Q2) by almost one percent, 77% versus 76%. (Q3) Adding the nine is worth almost eight percent taking your chances from 77% to a bit under 85%.