Beverly Dale was
disappointed. I should have given her a better bid, she said, and she would
have gone to game on Board 25. As it was, we stopped at 3 Clubs and made three
overtricks. Everything worked out right. Here’s the deal. I’m sitting North and
I’m dealer. East-west is vulnerable. We’re not.
Spades: K-9; Hearts:
6-3; Diamonds: 10-4-3-2; Clubs: K-Q-10-3-2.
I pass and so does
East. Beverly opens a Club. Since she will open a short Club and since she
admonished me for bidding inverted minors when we played together two weeks
ago, my response was 2 Clubs. I believe East bid 2 Spades. Beverly bid 3 Clubs
and I passed. Here are the other hands:
South
Spades: A-7-6; Hearts:
A-Q-8-2; Diamonds: None; Clubs: A-J-9-8-7-5.
East
Spades: Q-10-8-5-4;
Hearts: J-9; Diamonds: A-K-9-7-5; Clubs: 6.
West
Spades: J-3-2; Hearts:
K-10-7-5-4; Diamonds: Q-J-8-6; Clubs: 4.
The outcome was split
on the four times it was played. Two North-Souths bid 5 Clubs for plus 420.
Another one stopped at 3 Clubs, like us, for plus 170. Of a possible 3 game
points, we earned 0.5. Bidding 5 Clubs would have gotten us 2.
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