Above: The Delta Dealin' Regional Bridge Tournament was held at Sam's Town Casino in Tunica last week.
Playing with Buddy Hanby, we bid to a grand slam on the deal above. I was South (delcarer) and my left-hand opponent led the
♦A which I ruffed. How do you like your contract? If nothing bad happens you have five spades two (or three) hearts and six clubs.
At trick two I led a low spade to the dummy and LHO showed out! Yes, there was a 5-0 trump break.
Here are all four hands (approximately):
I pulled four rounds of trumps, came to a high heart and drew a fourth round. When I ran clubs, East eventually ruffed in and they cashed a diamond for down two, minus 100.
The good news is that even 6
♠ doesn't make. In fact, at the other table they were only in the small slam. I'm not sure how the play went, but they guy messed around and also went down 100 for a push board! Notice that I can handle a 4-1 trump break as long as nothing else bad happens. In poker they would call this a bad beat!
Sometimes a grand isn't so grand.
How does one to get to 7C by South?
ReplyDeleteI think you were writing in English but I'm not sure! :-)) Re your comment on Ocala DP: The name, Mitt, rhymes with the English word which in French is "merde!"
ReplyDelete@Jeff: Yes, I meant to mention that you can make 7 clubs.
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