Careless Talk Costs Contracts

Pages: Page 6 of 6

Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade9 7
  2. heart—
  3. diamondA K Q 10 9 8
  4. clubK Q J 8 3
  1. spadeK J
  2. heart9 7 6 5 3
  3. diamondJ 6 4 3
  4. club10 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 5 5 - - 4
S 4 5 - - 4
E - - - - -
W - - 2 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 8 6 5 3 2
  2. heartA 10 4 2
  3. diamond—
  4. clubA 7 4

Contract: 6clubx
Declarer: South
Lead: spadeK
  1. spadeA Q 4
  2. heartK Q J 8
  3. diamond7 5 2
  4. club9 6 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club
Dble 6club Dble Pass
Pass Pass
Declarer was Aaron Goodman, and he wasn't asleep. After winning spadeQ he crossed to clubQ and when the ten fell, returned to the nine in hand. After hearing East's comment about beating the contract with a diamond lead there could be only one explanation, and Goodman played a diamond to dummy's ten!

Perhaps from there onwards West might have become less inclined to say silly things during the auction ..and East less inclined to say silly things afterwards.
Previous page

This section is a placeholder for the forum. For the time being it will be a noshow class.