People tend to overlook the
power of the lower cards but they certainly pulled their weight on the hand
shown below where West needed a minor miracle to bring home his contract.
Long Stop
26th July – Board 13: Game All. Dealer North.
I think that North hand is too good for a weak two, with such a good suit and an ace outside. Not that opening 2♥ would have made much difference, because East would surely have doubled and although South would now have passed West would still have bid everybody’s favourite game. On the ‘obvious’ lead of the heart king West should hold up of course and now one of two things might happen. If North continues with a low heart West will duck again and the suit becomes out of play when South has to win. But if North continues with the queen of hearts then West wins because - mirabile dictu – he now has a second stopper with the eight and the six. So after winning he can afford to attack diamonds with North unable to cash more than one heart trick. Finally with the spade finesse working declarer will emerge with a slightly unexpected ten tricks. Can the defence ever prevail? Yes, but only if North makes the very off-centre lead of a low heart to start with.
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Against the pair my P and I played against, West was allowed to open 1NT and N overcalled 2H. My P doubled and I kept the double in -it went 2 off and we picked up 500 points. Nice :) and 8 Imps.
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No, I think you did the right thing even though you might have lost 3 imps had you bid the lucky game. I suppose you picked up 8 imps because against your other pair they played in a part score so it didn't really matter about not bidding game.
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