Earning Your Stripes

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 5 4 2
  2. heartA K 10 9 8 7 4
  3. diamondJ 5
  4. club—
  1. spadeQ 10 8
  2. heartJ 5
  3. diamondQ 9 7 3
  4. clubA 9 6 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 1 6 - 3
S - 1 6 - 3
E 2 - - 2 -
W 2 - - 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK J 9 7 6 3
  2. heart—
  3. diamondK 10 6
  4. clubQ 10 8 5
  1. spade—
  2. heartQ 6 3 2
  3. diamondA 8 4 2
  4. clubK J 7 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
3spade Pass
4spade 5heart Dble* Pass~
Pass Pass

* !!!
~ !!!!!!!!!!

Without blinking East doubled! South, about to raise to 6heart, was so dumbstruck that he passed instead of redoubling (in the delightful modern bridge idiom - "returning to sender") . North made the obvious 12 tricks and everybody wrote down 1050 to North-South.

At the other table ...
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