6th World Youth Open Championships: A Long Bidding way to Slam By Gianmarco Giubilo

August 22, 2019

Today will finish the Pairs Event Qualification Stage: Running Scores: U26 Open – U21 – U26 Women – U16.

The Qualification stage is being played during Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, at the end of this second day will be defined the pairs who will qualify to play the final this Thursday. The first 26 Pairs of the U26 Open – U21– U16 and the first 14 pairs of the U26 Women will be able to play the finals.

Without BBO vugraph we were able to find a young player who agreed to tell us this slam hand.

Session 5 Board 17

Dealer North/NoneVul

	Q 9 8 2 J 9 8 5 4 K J 8 10
K 7 4 3 K 9 6 6 A Q 7 6 3		A 6 A 10 3 A Q 10 7 K 8 4 2
	J 10 5 7 2 9 5 4 3 2 J 9 5

West	North	East	South
GABRIELE GIUBILO		GIANMARCO GIUBILO
	Pass	1	Pass
2 (1)	Pass	2 (2)	Pass
2 (3)	Pass	2NT (4)	Pass
3 (5)	Pass	3 (6)	Pass
3 (7)	Pass	3NT	Pass
4 (8)	Pass	4 (9)	Pass
4 (10)	Pass	5 (11)	Pass
6	All Pass

Lead: 5

The declarer made 13 tricks with out any problems, the diamond king was well placed.