Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Platinum Pairs 1st Final Board 8

This deal also appeared in this NY Times column.


Board 8
Dlr West
Vul None


♠ A Q 6
♥ A Q 9 6 3
♦ 10 4
♣ 9 8 2
♠ 7 5 ♠ 10 4
♥ K 10 ♥ J 7 2
♦ A J 8 7 6 3 2♦ K Q 9
♣ Q 5 ♣ A K J 4 3
♠ K J 9 8 3 2
♥ 8 5 4
♦ 5
♣ 10 7 6



West North East South
Pass 1♥ 2♣ Pass
2♦ Pass 3♦ 3♥
3N All Pass

Over 2♣ I took a kind of weird action with the South hand. I thought I might be given a chance to play in spades (e.g. Pass-Pass-Dbl), or at least discourage a heart lead somewhat. When the opponents found a diamond fit I regretted my choice. It did work out pretty well when in fact partner hit on the ♠A lead against 3N and we took 8 fast tricks for +200 and 16/17 matchpoints.

I don't like my choice, but can't complain about the result.

[Andy] The auction did indeed sound funny, but I didn't actually figure out Franco's original reasoning. I mostly just trusted my RHO's auction instead :)


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