13th November – Board 7. Game All. Dealer
South.
I admired West’s ultimate
bid on the hand shown below which gained a bucket-load of points although it
could all so easily have gone wrong. But sometimes you have to be a little
bold, in bridge as in life (so I am told.)
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North:
S J 9 6 3
H K 10 6 2
D 3
C A 8 7 5
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West:
S K 5 4 2
H none
D A K Q 5 4 2
C 9 4 2
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East:
S Q 10 8
H A 9 7 3
D 10 8 7
C K Q 3
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South:
S A 7
H Q J 8 5
4
D J 9 6
C J 10 6
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West
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North
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East
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South
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No
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1D
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No
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1H
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No
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1S
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No
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2NT
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No
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3NT
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End
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With
the potential to take a lot of tricks with that persuasive diamond suit West
bid 3NT after his partner had shown a balanced sort of hand with around eleven
points and a club stop, and the spotlight fell on South. A heart lead would
have led to a two trick defeat but with East bidding the suit it could have
turned out badly and a club lead looked fairly safe. In fact it made life easy
for declarer who soon claimed nine tricks and a big swing although I see from
the benign lie of the cards that five diamonds can always be made.
I agree 5D makes but against proper defence how do you stop losing 4 hearts a club and a spade as we did
ReplyDeleteWell of course 3NT would not make on heart lead but the point is that South might well look somewhere else for his lead as declarer had bid hearts. And if that is the case then 3NT would make. From West's point of view is is unlikely that 2NT would make exactly so it must be right to have shot at 3NT and hope for a favourable lead.
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