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More Diamonds on Day 1
Posted by David Stern on Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 12:14
Each hand in this event is played 54 times (the number of teams entered). If it was played 21 times in a doubled contract MAKING has anybody done anything wrong. Let's have a look.
Here is a sensible auction on the hand above:
| West |
North |
East |
South |
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1♦ |
| 1♠ |
Double |
3♠ or 4♠ |
5♣ |
| Pass |
5♦
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Pass |
Pass |
| Double |
All Pass |
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- The negative double of 1♠ depends on your style
- South could certainly consider bypassing the club suit and simply bidding 5♦ but either way nobody has done anything extraordinary.
You may have noticed that
- E/W can make 5♠; and
- a Heart ace lead by West will defeat 5♦
But clearly the field found this hand hard to handle
| NS Score |
Freq |
| 650 |
2 |
| 610 |
1 |
| 550 |
21 |
| 400 |
3 |
| 200 |
1 |
| 150 |
3 |
| 100 |
3 |
| -50 |
3 |
| -100 |
6 |
| -150 |
1 |
| -170 |
1 |
| -200 |
1 |
| -300 |
2 |
| -650 |
3 |
| -850 |
3 |
Glad I wasn't put to the test as I would have been writing -550 for sure!
