A Useful Gadget At Pairs

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA K 5
  2. heartQ J 10 9
  3. diamondQ 7 5
  4. clubQ 6 5
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ J 10 8 7 4 2
  2. heart4 3
  3. diamondA
  4. club10 7 2

Contract: 3spade
Declarer: East

West North East South
1club Pass 3spade Pass
Pass Pass
At teams, you might have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from thinking about a game contract, but at pairs it's different. An invitational gadget that showed this sort of hand was very useful, for you can see that game was doomed. At the table East bid 3spade and West, with all his soft values, passed quietly.

Inevitably, the overbidders reached 4spade and this is what happened to one of them ...
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