4th July – Board 22: East/West
Vul. Dealer East.
How would you – or did you
– evaluate that West hand after partner opens 2NT? My first instinct when
watching was to bid 3NT and hope that the clubs come in and for that reason I
would discount a pass for it seems so unlikely that eight tricks exactly will
be made. 5C is a possibility I suppose and while I might consider that with a
1-2-3-7 distribution the actual hand outside the club holding is just a bit too
flat and I have an intense dislike of 7-2-2-2 hands.
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North:
S 8 7 6 3 2
H Q 8 2
D K 10 9 2
C A
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West:
S 10 4
H 10 4
D J 7
C J 8 7 6 4 3 2
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East:
S A K J 9
H A K J 7
D A Q 5
C 10 5
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South:
S Q 5
H 9 6 5 3
D 8 6 4 3
C K Q 9
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West
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North
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East
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South
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2NT
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No
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No/3NT/
5C??
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End
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As
it happens 3NT is the winner but for none of the reasons mentioned! The jack of
diamonds and the ten of hearts mean that there are five red suit winners and
the ten of spades means that there are four spade winners when the queen of
that suit obligingly falls in two rounds and there are no entries to dummy to
persuade you to take a finesse.
The
clubs never come into it at all!
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