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- From: nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim)
- Subject: alerted double; opening lead
- Keywords: double, lead
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- Organization: Fordham University
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:13:00 GMT
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- At a 13-table duplicate game in a local club on board 10 (both
- vulnerable, East dealer) I held as South:
- S-xx H-Axx D-KJTx C-AKJ9
- East opened 2H, weak. I bid 2N, which for my partnership shows 15-18hcp
- and a definite heart stopper. (Qxx would not qualify, QJx would.) West
- passed, and my partner bid 3N. East doubled, alerted. I asked for an
- explanation, and got: "*Demands* a heart lead."
-
- I passed, partly on the assurance of a heart lead. All passed. The ace of
- spades hit the table as the opening lead (asks for honor to be dropped under
- it or for count, according to their card). "Director!" by me produced West's
- assurance that he had no hearts, and so couldn't lead one. Not much to the
- play; West ran his 7-card spade suit for down 3, doubled:
-
- North
- S-Qx
- H-xxxx
- D-AQxx
- C-Qxx
-
- West East
- S-AKJTxxx S-xx
- H- H-KQJTxx
- D-xx D-9xx
- C-Txxx C-xx
-
- South
- S-xx
- H-Axx
- D-KJTx
- C-AKJ9
-
- -800 was of course a bottom. With no outside entry, East's double seems
- really strange. I have two questions:
-
- 1) If West had had a heart and still led the ace of spades, what would the
- director have ruled?
-
- 2) Was I a fool, or just fixed?
-
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- Leonard J. Nissim (nissim@mary.fordham.edu)
- Disclaimer: "I speak only for myself."
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