This
exciting deal is from the Green Point pairs held
face to face at Bramhall last Sunday.
The South hand is difficult to bid especially when
playing two over one game forcing. South
responded one no trump which was really his only
option without overbidding wildly. North made
a slightly eccentric raise to two notrump,
ostensibly showing 18-19 balanced. South tried three
notrump hoping to be able to run one of his minor
suits, otherwise he was likely to go a lot
off. John Holland suggests four notrump by
South after two notrump, an unusual form of the
unusual notrump.
West
led a heart to the nine and ten, East then switched
to a low diamond to the ten and king. South
was hopeful of a second diamond which would make
nine tricks easy but West now tried the club
jack. South won with the ace and cashed the
major suit winners on table, before taking the club
finesse. If West had found the club switch
from QJ doubleton South would have gone about five
off but all was well. The defence went wrong
on the run of the clubs and South emerged with ten
tricks. At the point where he cashed the major
suit winners on table a better line is to take the
club finesse and then play the queen of diamonds.
Three
other tables played five clubs with varying degrees
of success, presumably after an auction like 1S 2D,
3S 4C, 4S 5C. A couple played in six clubs,
one pair made this (an interesting double dummy
exercise for you) and two in four spades, one making
and two in spade partials one other pair played
three notrump also making ten tricks.
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