17h March – Board 24: Love All. Dealer North.
Grand slams are notoriously difficult to bid at the best of times, especially with distributional hands where there might not be an over-abundance of points between the combined hands, but the deal shown below demonstrated a singular amount of faint-heartedness when it arose last Thursday. At the very least it should have gone something like this:
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West
|
North
|
East
|
South
|
1C
|
1H
|
Dbl
| |
No
|
3S
|
No
|
4D
|
No
|
4H
|
No
|
4NT
|
No
|
5S
|
No
|
6S
|
End
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Whether East overcalls with 1H or 2H Dble by South should show precisely four spades – you bid them with more – leaving North to raise to the three level with his six-loser hand.
South could now cue in diamonds and after confirming that there are not two immediate heart losers he can wheel out the Old Black. The reply shows the two missing key-cards plus the queen of spades but even so North needs to have a singleton heart to make the grand slam a viable bet and I cannot see how that can be accomplished with any certainty. South knows of course that his partner started with at least five clubs headed by the ace but that would cater for only three heart discards from the South hand. I guess some hands are just too hard.
Grand slams occur rarely but you can always be certain that Paddy's day happens once a year.
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