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Bridge Information
Favorite Bridge Memory
Walking into the local club at the tender age of 31 (1980) armed with 16-18 and Blackwood that I had gotten out of a book. In a few months I got to play with a decent standby and we won. The next week we won again. And then ..."What is this club bid you call Stayman and I'm worried about my clubs?". And we didn't win.
Bridge Accomplishments
Winning 2 events at an old sectional when they only had 4. I had 200 masterpoints. My team won the thu bam and my partner and I won the sat open paris. There were no strats or flights.
A priori the odds are 2 to 1 against partner having the ♦K. Less than 50/50 partner has 2 dias. Probably much less than 25% of significant chances for everything else you've said. Don't be stubborn.
Deal the other 39 cards from this hand and prove it ...
True.
West's bidding was kind of revealing about the hearts.
East kind of knows the spades double dummy. South with ♠AKQT6.
And South has limited transportation to get to dummy enough times. Even BY can't lead spades 3 times from dummy. But she can ruff a heart with ...
I thought that was very unusual.
It wasn't easy to see why.
It took a while, but I think I got it.
And there was more interesting about this hand.
1 pair was +980. Half the field went down. The rest were somewhere else.
I hoped West for their RKC would be more likely to have the ♦K and ♥A rather than lack of 1st or 2nd round controls.
West kind of blasted to slam. Maybe assuming something about opener's hand. The club holding? Even though partner didn't Lightner double.