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Dealer: East |
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Contract: 5 |
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| 3NT | Pass | Pass | 4 |
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| Pass | Pass | 4NT | Dble |
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bid, as West's 3NT obviously showed fewer than four hearts Alan decided to reopen with a double, suspecting that his partner held a heart stack. Dick duly converted this into a penalty Pass and East reverted to No Trumps again. Now well into the doubling rhythm, Alan had a piece of this and West finally took fright and brought this extraordinary sequence to an end in 5. Ironically South decided to let this one go.