1st March – Board 5: North/South Vul. Dealer North.
The distribution gremlins were out in force last Thursday and never more so than in the hand shown below. And as usually happens in these cases it all ended in tears for one side or the other.
West
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North
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East
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South
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1S
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2H
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No
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No
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???
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I’m not giving any more of the bidding because there are so many permutations. If East decides to bid 2H in the first instance – and he might well decide to double instead – South should pass and look bored. A double in that position is for take-out showing the minors and is not a penalty double. What he would hope to happen of course is that West would pass and for his partner to re-open with a take-out double when he would have some idea what to do. Of course that isn’t going to happen. North would probably bid 2S and now if East passes South could bid 3H, natural. Whether that message is clear to North, who knows, but it should be. Any more bidding and the red cards will start being shown and indeed 4S doubled minus lots was a common score.
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