Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!rh From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: fya (amusement) Message-ID: <467@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 02:08:15 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddie.467 Posted: Tue Jul 19 02:08:15 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 11:19:52 EDT Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 46 In the best of all possible worlds, you could make Grand Slam with a trump fit of 3-3 and a split of 5-2: NORTH: S-- A Q 9 H-- 4 D-- Q T 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 C-- void WEST: EAST: S-- 7 4 S-- 8 6 5 3 2 H-- 9 6 5 2 H-- T 8 7 3 D-- K J 5 D-- A C-- 9 8 7 3 C-- J T 5 SOUTH: S-- K J T H-- A K Q J D-- void C-- A K Q 6 4 2 Never mind the auction. North and South started bidding wildly until they committed themselves to about the four level when they realized that they had a misfit hand. They finally agreed upon a trump that they each had some of (and had top values in), and like all people who use Precision Bidding, went to slam. A spade lead from east would defeat the contract, although east would never pull trump. Instead, he lead his low heart, which south grabs with the Ace. South realizes that as his cards lie, he has ten winners in his hand and three on the board, and only if east and west are not allowed to ruff. He prays to the god of distribution (who was in a bizarre mood for this hand) and proceeds to cash his winners. He made it because the defenders cards fell the only way that they possibly could for him to make it. The question is, how did he play it?? -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)