[blml] Brooklyn Bridge for sale [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"The angels keep their ancient places;
- Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces 
That miss the many-splendoured thing."
                         [Francis Thompson]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <richard.hills at immi.gov.au>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:33 AM
Subject: [blml] Brooklyn Bridge for sale [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> 
> Matchpoint pairs
> Dlr: East
> Vul: North-South
> 
> The bidding has gone:
> 
> WEST      NORTH     EAST      SOUTH
> ---       ---       1D        2C
> 2D        2S        Pass      Pass
> 3D        Pass      Pass      ?
> 
> You, South, hold:
> 
> A 9
> K T 7
> Q 6 5
> A J T 8 6
> 
> What call do you make?
> What other calls do you consider making?
> 
+=+ North's pass of 3D does not encourage me 
to think this is our hand.  He is (apparently) short 
of diamonds so why does he not double? At 
matchpoint pairs I can see an ugly -200 coming 
or worse. Pass (I did wonder about Spades but 
very briefly.)
                   Timorously,
                               ~ Grattan ~   +=+