Date	12^th October 2008
Event	Porter
Partner	Robert Northage
Team Mates	Hugh Cairns & Geoff Shaw Pat Watson & Marjorie Gilbertson Ian Bruce & Mick Mahoney
Result	Leicestershire 7 Nottinghamshire 13

Boards
Board	Result	Score			Comments
		Imps	Butler	Cross
	1N+1 by S 120	0	2	15	We bid one diamond – one heart – one spade – one no trump.
	3H by S 140	6	2	13	I opened one heart, West overcalled two clubs, I reopened with a double and bid three hearts over Robert’s two spades.
	3N-1 by E 100	13	12	61	I led a heart and declarer forgot to count his tricks and took a diamond finesse.
	2H by E -110	0	3	14
	4S-2 by W 100	2	4	26
	3N by W -600	2	1	7
	3N+1 by N 630	14	4	28
	3N+1 by W -430	1	-7	-25
		38	21	139

Boards
Board	Result	Score			Comments
		Imps	Butler	Cross
	4S-2 by S 100	2	3	17
	3N by W 600	13	9	59	Our auction was pass-pass-one heart-two diamonds-pass-pass-double-pass-two spades-pass-three hearts-pass-three spades-pass-three no trumps. The king of diamonds was led and South, playing count, followed with the six. The nine would have been a better choice. From North’s point of view I had dropped the five from Q53. He continued with the seven of diamonds.
	3C by E 110	4	2	9
	2D by E 90	-1	2	12	Our uncontested sequence was 1N-2C-2D
	3N+2 by E 660	1	3	15
	4S by E 420	0	0	10
	4S*-3 by E -500	-8	-10	-59
	4S-1 by E -100	0	-9	-40
		11 (49)	0 (21)	23 (162)

Boards
Board	Result	Score			Comments
		Imps	Butler	Cross
	4H-1 by S -50	-10	-1	-4
	3N-1 by N -100	-12	-12	-72	Our auction was over-elaborate (one club – one heart – one no trump – two clubs – three spades – three no trumps) and the nine of diamonds lead became obvious.
	2N+1 by W -150	10	2	32
	1H-1 by N -100	-6	1	-4
	3S* by E -530	-10	-11	-64	The auction went one club-one no trump-double-two hearts-pass-two spades-double-pass-three clubs-double-pass-pass-three spades-pass-pass-double.
	1N-5 by E 500	9	9	53	My opening bid of one club was passed to East who bid one no trump. I led a spade and declarer won in hand and played a heart to the queen. A second heart went to my jack and I switched to a diamond. Robert won the ace and returned a club. I took my tricks and underled my king of diamonds. Declarer guessed wrong and we took the last two tricks.
	4S by N 620	0	3	20
	4D* by W -610	-10	-10	-50	Our auction was one diamond – double – two diamonds – three hearts – four diamonds – pass – pass – double.
		-29 (20)	-19 (2)	-89 (73)

Boards
Board	Result	Score			Comments
		Imps	Butler	Cross
	4S+1 by N -450	1	-4	-31
	1N+2 by E 150	0	1	3
	1N-1 by N 100	-1	0	-1
	3H-1 by W -50	2	-3	-8
	1N+1 by W 120	6	6	9
	4S-1 by W 50	-2	7	34
	4S-3 by N -150	-3	-6	-36
	3S by W -140	0	-2	-4
		3 (23)	-1 (1)	-34 (39)

Statistics	Hands	Imps	Imps/Bd	Tot Pld	Tot Imps/Bd
Opening Lead from Tim	4	16	4.00	570	-0.24
Played by Tim	8	20	2.50	630	0.66
Played by Robert	11	-15	-1.36	24	-0.67
Opening Lead from Robert	8	-20	-2.50	31	-0.74

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	Asking Bids	DOPI and ROPI
6.1.5 Doubles	Optional	Penalty	Lead Directional
6.1.6 The Protective Position
6.2 Declarer Play
6.2.1 General Technique	End Play	Squeeze	Finesse	Lose tricks early	Pin	Avoidance	Restricted Choice
6.2.2 Trump Management	Ruffing	Ruffing Losers before drawing trumps	Trump Coup	Ruffing Finesse	Loser on Loser	Coping with bad splits	Cross Ruff
	Dummy Reversal
6.3 Defence	Second Player	Signals	Third Player	Play the cards you are known to have
6.3.1 Defensive Tactics	Forcing Defence	Passive Defence	Merrimac Coup
6.3.2 Opening Leads	Fourth Highest	Third and Fifth	MUD	Top of Nothing
6.3.3 Plays in Third Hand	Finesse Against Dummy	Finesse Against Partner
6.3.4 Entry Management	Unblocking
6.4 Probability
6.5 Glossary of Terms
7 Through the Pack