Acol Bidding
East opens 1S and you overcall with a 5 card major suit with 11 HCP plus 2 DP's for your
long suits holding . Partner supports your major suit now you can
revalue DP's using suit shortages having found a fit. With these extra 4 DP's your hand is
now worth 15 TP's. Partners single raise shows you that they have 6-9 total points. The opposition compete up to 3S, so you with these extra values are free to bid 4H. All Pass
In a suit contract after the opening lead has been made stop and plan your play by
. You have no heart losers, 1 club loser, 1 diamond loser and 1 spade loser. So you should be able to make 10 tricks with this deal. Plan is to draw trumps and try to establish winners in your diamond suit, hopefully discarding club and spade losers.
Win the opening spade lead, draw trumps (how many rounds do you need to draw out all oppositions trump suit cards?). Lose to the AC and AD, after 2 rounds of diamonds all your small diamonds are high.
North - South can make 4 hearts with only 20 HCP - but East West can make 3 spades with their 20 HCP
