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4 Spades Redoubled - twice


PeterAlan

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There was the following rather curious hand in a Swiss Teams event today. I'll give the auction first, but since the diagram editor seems to be a bit picky about what one can create it'll have to be in two halves. It started

 

[hv=d=w&v=e&b=16&a=2c2hp3c3sp4sdpprp]133|100[/hv]and continued[hv=d=w&v=e&b=16&a=p4hdp4sppdpprppp]133|100[/hv]

By way of comment:

  • W's 2 was Benji - 8+ playing tricks in some suit or 23+ balanced
  • E's 4 and first XX were expressions of confidence in partner
  • after N's insufficient 4 E seemed to think it might be worth offering W an extra option
  • S's second X was presumably based on a conviction that her first X couldn't have been a misjudgment
  • E's final XX seems to have been based on the view that when partner bid 4 she knew what she was doing and was more likely to have been right than S

The hands were as follows: N led away from the K; W won perforce, crossed to dummy's Q, and played 10; when S didn't cover and W ran it that was 12 tricks for a rather improbable +1880.

[hv=pc=n&s=skj4hj4dt6cak9543&w=saq7632haqdakj2cj&n=s8hk98732d9743c86&e=st95ht65dq85cqt72]399|300[/hv]

Has anyone else had an auction where the same redoubled contract has been bid twice?

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Not had anything like this, but I have had the unopposed auction 1-1-1-1 where you end the auction with 1 and are not the declarer.

I had an auction that went something like:

2 - 2 - 2 - 2

3 - 3 - 3 - 3

all pass

 

Both sides bid their suits twice each and didn't get past the three level.

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