A
deal from the Swiss Teams at the Spring Fours.
Phil
Taylor opened one diamond then, when Peter Grauer
responded one heart, he showed a shortage in clubs
and strong heart support with a jump to four
clubs. After a couple of cue bids Peter used
Roman Keycard Blackwood. With all the key
cards and a void and the queen of trumps and a known
control in diamonds opposite Phil just bid the grand
slam.
On
a club lead Peter ruffed the club in dummy, played a
diamond to the king, a spade to dummy, ruffed a
diamond, another spade to dummy, another diamond
ruffed and overruffed and then was able to draw
trumps and claim when everything broke reasonably.
Well
done. Is this a good grand? It needs
trumps 3-2 most of the time, diamonds 3-3 or queen
doubleton or diamonds 4-2 with North having the
length. It also needs spades to break 4-2 or
3-3. All this is quite a lot, so it is
probably anti-percentage, but not by much.
Thanks to Phil Taylor for reporting this deal |
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