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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2011-August-19, 04:50

EW got 450 in this deal (dealer: W, everyone NV). Can you guess how (contract and maybe also the auction)? Environment: late night BBO team match.

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Posted 2011-August-19, 06:19

Funny, it's hard to imagine an auction to 4 or 5 spades which gets North to lead a diamond and then play another diamond when in with clubs. Hm, maybe he played club ace and then a low club...

I'll guess 2♠-p-4♠-4NT-p-5♣-dbl-5♦-p-p-5♠-p-p-p.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 06:42

I'll guess that the defense started with 2 top clubs against some major suit contract.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 06:56

I was afraid this would be too easy a problem, but I'm happy to see I was wrong :)
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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:22

N/S 4♠-9?

I'm not going to take a stab at that auction, but it looks like north psyched, maybe 3S, after west passed. Unfortunately I don't see how they get to 4S, and surely NS can take a club trick. I don't see any way for EW to take more than 12 tricks without serious errors on the part of the defense.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:33

I can't think of any doubled or redoubled contracts worth 450, so the only alternatively to E/W playing spades seems to be N/S going down 9 undoubled.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:43

Another more boring possibility:

4S E +1 on a heart lead. Maybe the auction was P P 1C 2N; 3H P 4S AP

Getting a good -9 undoubled contract for NS seems tough, as usually East will double. I wonder about something ridiculous like 3S P 4S 5S; AP, but that requires it to be so late night that North fell asleep (or was assuming the opponents were psyching and partner was in on it?) in addition to South bidding crazily.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:51

Two hints:

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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:52

I know what the answer to this is (I was partnering Gwnn on the other table). Your 3S P 4S 5S is getting closer to what happened :). If you want another hint, mtvesuvius had this bid as his sig for a while (long gone now)
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Posted 2011-August-19, 07:52

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Posted 2011-August-19, 08:10

Ah, plausible:

(3S) P (4S) 4N
AP

edit: ah but this isn't down 9 and probably E didn't bid 4-only-spades anyway
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Posted 2011-August-19, 08:16

yes you're very close!!!
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Posted 2011-August-19, 08:18

ha did this really go
(3S) P (6S) 6N
AP

That is fantastic if so.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 08:28

View Postwyman, on 2011-August-19, 08:10, said:

Ah, plausible:

(3S) P (4S) 4N
AP

edit: ah but this isn't down 9 and probably E didn't bid 4-only-spades anyway

Hard to believe 4NT could go down 9.

Seems like it would have to be at least 5♠ or 5NT to have a chance at going down 9.
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Posted 2011-August-19, 08:59

View Postwyman, on 2011-August-19, 08:18, said:

ha did this really go
(3S) P (6S) 6N
AP

That is fantastic if so.


Awesome, and surely correct!
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Posted 2011-August-19, 09:05

Yes :) well done
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