pilowsky

The punchline of course was that the contract was makeable because of the bidding error!

That's the trouble with guessing!

West has no business bidding 1NT it is a flaw in SAYC.They should favor their five card suit and bid one club forcing for round in the absence of interference! Not their contact anyway.

https://tinyurl.com/y3lknlyc This hand came up in an ACBL tournament. Full disclosure: I'm a bit of a newbie and tried cue bidding spades! Ending up in 7NTx. Fortunately, the robots must have been fearful of the spade bidding and made an orthodox 4th down diamond lead. Amazingly, the contract makes! Enjoy. Interestingly, after the crazy spade bid the robots seemed to believe that I had two, different, club holdings simultaneously.