21st March – Board 20: Game All.
Dealer West.
Bridge can be a cruel game at times and this was demonstrated to perfection by the following hand where neither partner did anything too wrong but still ended up with the sort of result that makes you dread scoring up with your teammates.
Although East maintained a dignified silence throughout – quite correctly – South did not and I cannot blame him. I think 1
♠ is a standout bid with the expectation of passing partner’s rebid of, hopefully, 2
♣ or 2
♦. Actually I would have rebid 1NT on that North hand because I play a wide-range 1NT rebid of 12-16 points but it’s not as if 1NT plays much better than 2
♥. Anyway in standard Acol you have to rebid 2
♥ which will founder by four or five tricks, although things might have been a lot worse. If East doubles 2
♥ that would be for penalties because the auction is still live and because you didn’t double 1
♥ in the first place. But anyway one can hardly blame East for knowing when he is on to a good thing and he certainly would not want the auction removed to 2
♠. The only slight consolation for N/S is that 3NT can almost certainly be made the other way – not that anyone is going to bid it. As an aside one North decided to pass altogether. Although this was an inspired choice the logic behind it escapes me for the moment.
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