District 8 Solvers Forum

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Solvers Forum -- June 2017 Problems

1. Matchpoints, NS vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
1D DBL Pass 2C
2D 2H Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
Q63   2  Q982   KJ964 ?

2. Matchpoints, EW vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
3H 4NT * 5H ???

   * Minors

What is your call as South holding:
AK109762   7  J102   109?

3. IMPs, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
      1H
3D DBL Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
KJ   AQ10873  Q   A987 ?

4. IMPs, both vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
      1C
2H 2S 5H ???

What is your call as South holding:
942   Void  AJ102  AKJ863 ?

5. Matchpoints, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
    Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
Void   K109732  AQ74   1082 ?

6. Matchpoints, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
Pass Pass 1S DBL
2S Pass Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
AK984   KJ   AK6   K93 ?

Thanks for the problems to Jordan Chodorow (#1), Bridgewinners.com (#2) and Will Engel (#5).