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- From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
- Subject: 6D dbld: Hilarious story.. assign the blame:-)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173904.7866@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:39:04 GMT
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-
- No really this is not an assign the blame hand:-) Contrary to what the
- bidding may indicate the rest of the players at the table were very
- good -- this was just a late 2am impromptu IMP game played after our
- weekly club game. Anyway, I am glad it worked out the way it did,
- because (a) I now have a REAL story to tell that is straight out of
- one of Mollo's books and (b) we did manage to come back and win the
- match by 1 imp:-)
-
- Anyway, holding
- ATxx,xxx,AJxx,Qx
- would you double 6D after hearing the auction go as below.
-
- SOUTH Dealer, EW red, IMPs
-
- E S W N
- - 1D P 2C(1)
- P 2H P 2S
- P 3D P 4N(2)
- P 5S(3) P 6D(4)
- Dbl(5) P P P
-
- 1. 2/1 GF
- 2. Its late, I will RKC for diamonds, should be OK opposite anything
- but a 5S response
- 3. 2KC with the trump Q
- 4. Arrrgh
- 5. Heh Heh Heh -- this should be juicy
-
- A comment, N is an excellent player, but at 2am, playing in an
- unfamiliar partnership, stranger things have happened (by an AMAZING
- coincidence this was on Halloween!!). I have filled in the dramatis
- persona in the deal for you all to enjoy..
-
-
- KQJ9
- A
- 972
- KJT542
- _____
- HH
- Papa Secretary Bird
- 87652 AT43
- JT542 983
- _ AJ54
- 653 Q8
- RR
- ----
- 2
- KQ76
- KQT863
- A9
-
- Since, this was striaght out of Mollo, I might as well tell you that I
- was West whom fate conspired to make Papa, East was Secretary Bird and
- South was the Rueful Rabbit who was in yet another unmakable contract.
-
- Well, sitting West holding xxxxx,JTxxx,_,xxx what would you LEAD on
- the above auction????
-
- I should perhaps have taken into account the mumbled "oh shit" by
- North, but applying Papa-like logic to the problem (a VERY dangerous
- thing to do at 2am in the morning) I reasoned the double must be
- Lightner, and emerged with a club.
-
- At this point the slam is ICE cold. RR (errr. thats Toby Strite -- the
- resemblence to RR is restricted to this deal only -- a very fine
- player) proceeded to make the contract.
-
- The line is simple -- play 6 rounds of clubs without touching
- trumps...
-
- The club was covered by the J Q and Ace, a club back to the CK, and
- the CT. Secretary Bird ruffed with the 4 overruffed with the 6, and a
- heart to the Ace. Another club, ruffed by Secretary Bird with the the
- 5, overruffed by by the 8. RR then ruffed a heart in dummy, lead
- another club, Secretary Bird ruffed with the Jack, over-ruffed by the
- Queen. A last heart, ruffed in dummy and Secretary Bird had to
- follow. Now the 6th club was lead, Secretary Bird ruffed with the
- Ace, but RR tossed his losing club and claimed.
-
- And, HH sitting North just guffawed and rubbed it in...
-
- A pretty amazing scenario...
-
- Bharat
-
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