[blml] Lucy in the sky with diamonds [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

John R. Mayne:

>Club ace. Because West might bid this way with AKQ9842 -- AJ43 32.

Richard Hills:

A very good guess, with West actually holding AKJ965 --- AT92 K95.
Only the club ace works, since East held Q4 AKQ8 KQJ8 J84.

John R. Mayne:

>If this is the sort of west who would never do that, I would
>consider the book lead of a diamond. But I would only consider
>that if I were virtually certain W wouldn't be a trickster;
>looking at three small spades makes a legit beat of a properly bid
>grand really remote.

John Probst, "alertability" thread, 18th January 2007:

>>I've had Paul Hackett (with punter) ask me how I was doing during
>>a late round of a pairs competition. It seemed a reasonable and
>>justifiable question to me and I answered it. He would know that
>>I would not lie. The punter had no idea what was going on and
>>assumed it was just polite conversation. When I then took a view
>>on a hand, Paul knew exactly what was going on, and it would have
>>been manifestly unfair to him if he'd not known where I thought I
>>was in the field. I took Paul's question as a back-handed
>>compliment.  cheers john

Richard Hills:

I was West, playing in my local South Canberra Bridge club eclectic
Butler pairs.  Having played against me many times before, South
had no hesitation in leading the ace of clubs.

Nigel Guthrie:

>Assuming that West is sane, this contract is likely to be cold,
>because it seems that there are no distributional shocks for
>declarer.
>Hence, IMO,,,
>S3 =10... Hoping that opponents have a ten card spade fit.

[snip]

Hamlet:

"I am but mad north-north-west."

Richard Hills:

Should a nigellian visitor to South Canberra be advised, under the
full disclosure rule of Law 75, that the bespectacled bearded
gentleman sitting North, North or West is insane?

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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