P-3NT-X-P
P-P
I hope to never see this auction again. The cards were lying very favorably for declarer and I think we may have slipped a trick on defense so he only went down 2.
1NT-P-2NT-P
3♣-P-3♦-P
3♥-P-4♦-P
4♥-P-5♦-P
P-P
This is another basically impossible auction. 2NT was a transfer to diamonds, 3♣ was a superaccept, and 3♦ was a signoff. I was actually the notrump opener here – the one making the seemingly ridiculous bids. However, 5♦ was exactly the right spot. My hand: ♠Ax ♥AKJxx ♦Txxx ♣Ax. Partner was 2-1-6-4 with only the ace of diamonds. The contract made easily when diamonds did not split 3-0. However, I do not condone this bidding. At least I should have passed 4♦ when partner tried to sign off a second time.
If each defender had only 1 diamond on the 5D hand, then somebody had a director call. I may be rusty, but it strikes me that when I was playing a lot of bridge that most packs of 52 cards came with 13 diamonds. Splitting them 6-4-1-1 must be the use of new math.
ReplyDeleteBut I didnt write that each defender had *only* one diamond. And if they were 1-1, we would have made 6, not 5. Either way, I changed it to be a little clearer.
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