The auction was 1♣ Pass 3♣ (preemptive) to me. I held:
♠J 7 ♥K J 8 ♦A K Q 7 6 5 4 3 ♣ --
What would you bid? I'm old and conservative, so I bid only 3♦. The surely auction won't end there, will it? Unfortunately, everyone passed, West led the ♠K, and this was what I saw:
It looks like it might make 5♦, but look what happened. West continued with the ♠A and the ♠Q. On the third round of spades, East ruffed with the ♦10 and that set up a trump trick for his partner. Here are all four hands:
East's play is called an uppercut. Bridge is filled with colorful expressions such as this. Don't you love it.
I'm still not sure how to get to 3NT. A 4♠ contract might also make, and I got a bad score.
Yes, nice uppercut.
ReplyDeleteHowever, your partner robot has a 1S overcall. The length compensates for the suit weakness.
Could it be that the east-west robots were compensating i.e. playing better because the north robot bid poorly?
Hi MOJO. The link is fixed. I don't know what happened but it seems to be working fine now!
ReplyDeleteMojo, I have one word for you; POKER. :)
ReplyDeleteWow, this is all so foreign but I'm rooting for the robot, there is three of them so I'm getting 3:1 odds, right?
ReplyDeletei see you are as busy as every with your skills challenging your own mind as well as others :)
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