| ♠ | - |
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| ♥ | A K 3 |
| ♦ | K T 9 8 5 2 |
| ♣ | 9 8 6 2 |
Right hand opens a spade and I call my diamonds. Lefty bids 3♦ showing some sort of spade raise.
Opener asks for key cards and finding none bids 6♠.
Surely this is going down. The ♥AK figure to cash and if not a poor trump break and no easy route to tricks in the red suits will see declarer fall short.
And it's Thursday so if this makes we're getting 20%. Double.
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You can make up your own humorous anecdote about what South might have done had North reported a keycard. Or about employing keycard while looking at first round control of every suit. 0%
It didn't all go bad though:
| ♠ | 9 6 |
|---|---|
| ♥ | A K Q J 4 |
| ♦ | J T 3 2 |
| ♣ | A Q |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | Pass | 1♦ | ? |
Any thoughts?
1NT is my choice. Partner enquired about my major holdings so I lied and said I didn't have any and we played 3NT. Dummy appeared with:
| ♠ | K J 8 5 |
|---|---|
| ♥ | 5 3 2 |
| ♦ | Q 7 6 |
| ♣ | J 5 2 |
Not only does 4♥ fail by two tricks when the opponents can't help but get diamond ruffs but 3NT is plain sailing. 100%
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ReplyDeleteAs for my bid to the last hand, I'm looking to play in NTs if partner can cover spades.....and so I'm sticking in a double. On hearing 1S I'm punting 3NT with a little prayer of a little help in clubs/diamonds.
Nice bidding on the second deal.
ReplyDeleteBidding nt (second deal) is always a good thing in pairs :) still, it is a bit of a gamble as 4h can be cold with 3nt requiring hard work. With my partner i have agreed that such gambles are a good idea, but cost a round of beer if they fail!
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