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Would you have passed after partner's warning double - I hope so! If you had bid 7 there would be a possibility of North entering the auction with 7! It's not often you score an 87.5% board for scoring +100 with two cold grand slams your way! As you can see North is also cold for 7 and this contract was reached at three quarters of the tables. Both West and East did very well with their choice of bids - if West had opened 1 can you imagine South's reaction to North's overcall in spades? Had East taken a match points decision to jump to 6 and compete with 7 over 7 then North would have had a fairly obvious 7 bid. Incidentally, what do you think of North's decision to remain silent throughout? And Eric's question .
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