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#1 User is offline   Cascade 

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Posted 2009-August-23, 16:16

Scoring: IMP

PASS (PASS) 1♠ (PASS)
1NT (2♦) PASS (PASS)
PASS


I wasn't that impressed with my partner never raising spades. His best excuse is that we were playing 4-card majors. But still ...

Nevertheless the play was interesting:

♠ A 2 5 3
♠ T Q K ♦ 2
♣ 4 Q A 3
♦ 3 5 T Q
♠ 9 J 4 ♥2
♥ 4 8 9 10
♠ 8 7 ♦ 9 ♦ J
♣ J ♥ 5 ♣ A 2
♥ 6 Q K A
♠ 6 ♥ 7 ♣ 6 ♦ 4

Leaving this ending:

Scoring: IMP

PASS (PASS) 1♠ (PASS)
1NT (2♦) PASS (PASS)
PASS


Declarer advanced the ♥ 3 and I ruffed ace.

In order to lead the ♦ 8. Declarer feel from grace (probably playing a different game in which her play was irrelevant) and won the king.

Leaving me with the ♦7
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Posted 2009-August-23, 18:58

Appart from the type in the first trick, well done.

You avoided being endplayed in the end, wich of course carries style points as well.
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Posted 2009-August-23, 19:17

Thanks fixed :ph34r:

Yes no beer if i get endplayed.
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Posted 2009-August-23, 21:16

no beer in a diamond contract?
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Posted 2009-August-23, 21:19

matmat, on Aug 24 2009, 03:16 PM, said:

no beer in a diamond contract?

There is some dispute about that and I need as many beers as I can get :ph34r:
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Posted 2009-August-24, 00:21

I guess you need to give declarer 1/2 of a beer anyway :)
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Posted 2009-August-24, 01:23

Cascade, on Aug 24 2009, 04:19 AM, said:

matmat, on Aug 24 2009, 03:16 PM, said:

no beer in a diamond contract?

There is some dispute about that and I need as many beers as I can get :)

Certainly no beer from me in a diamond contract.
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Posted 2009-August-24, 02:07

....Not even on defence?

I think I would order my partner a beer for this play.
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Posted 2009-August-27, 23:36

Nope, no beers when diamonds are trumps. On defence beers are doubled but unfortunately 2*0 = 0.
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Posted 2009-August-29, 12:46

I'm a purist.
I think beers only apply when the defence take the last trick with the D7 in a trump contract with diamonds not trumps.
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Posted 2009-August-29, 13:00

The beer card is originally a Danish custom, actually from the club I play in: Studenterforeningens Bridge Club (The college Students associations Bridge Club.)

In it's original form, you'd get a beer, whenever you took the last trick on the ♦7, in any contract, both as defender and as declarer. One strict requirement was, that it hadn't cost a trick, not even an unimportent overtrick.

Edit: The beer is on partner, not opponents.
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Posted 2009-August-29, 15:30

FrancesHinden, on Aug 29 2009, 07:46 PM, said:

I'm a purist.
I think beers only apply when the defence take the last trick with the D7 in a trump contract with diamonds not trumps.

I think it applies only if you successfully exit with ♦7 at trick 12 playing No Last Two.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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