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MPs
Dealer: West
Lead: 6
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West Pass 1 ![]() Pass 2 ![]() Pass Pass |
North 1 ![]() Pass Pass Pass Dbl |
East Pass 1NT 2 ![]() 3 ![]() Pass |
South 1 ![]() Dbl Pass Pass Pass |
Today we have the remarkable spectacle of a balancer being hanged by his partner and hanging him in return. And this is just the beginning.
The auction cannot be faulted through Mini-Gee’s 1S overcall. Gee’s 1NT, though brave, shows, to most, something other than a six count and a stiff in the suit of his passed-hand partner.
The double scuttles what is left of Gee’s courage, as the words “Bones Principle”* thunder through his mind like a herd of charging elephants across the Serengeti. He pulls to 2D.
Over this Mini-Gee, with three cards in both reds, finds the imaginative bid of 2H, pulling to the suit his partner didn’t bid. Your basic expert would be ecstatic to find a 4-4 heart fit to play at the two level; not Gee. He persists with 3D, off 3 doubled for 500 and a stone matchpoint zero.
What possessed Mini-Gee to bid 2H with K97 remains a mystery. Perhaps they play transfers here — an unusual treatment, considering that the opponents have already bid two suits, including hearts, but one never knows. And although to the STCP™ it looks like Mini-Gee could have a stiff or void in diamonds, Gee divines Mini’s error (table feel!) and pulls to the superior 3D contract. What looks like luck is in fact a calculated risk by an expert to improve the contract.
Three brilliant bids in sequence, poor Gee still nets a bottom. Some days it just doesn’t pay a guy to get out of bed.
*Although the Bones Principle did not come directly into play, its specter was enough to affect the hand. Hence, a logo.