Sheffield Bridge Club	Established 1936

LUCY  AND  THE  BEAST

(From Sheffield Bridge Club Newsletter No 63, March 1991. The board was played at Trowbridge Bridge Club in Wiltshire two years earlier.)

One evening, the Pig Trader was trying to impress his partner, an attractive, young Oxbridge student called Lucy. Half way through the evening, he picked up this hand and, after three passes came round to him, he cursed inwardly.

He cursed because someone had passed with 12 High Card Points. He reckoned that Lucy would not have done this, so he postulated that at other tables, East West would open the bidding, reach a contract and go down on the bad breaks. Arguable? So, thinking that if he passed the hand out, it would be a bad board, and unable to open a Weak Two or Multi, he opened 1©.

West, on his left, bid 2§, Lucy 2NT and East doubled. Oh dear! The Pig Trader bid 3©, passed round to East who again doubled. A Bottom appeared inevitable! He redoubled in a frantic attempt to intimidate the opposition, but they were having none of it! A club was led and dummy went down :

 West had actually underled §A, and also held ¨K, so although East held ©AK73, the Pig Trader emerged with an overtrick, +960 and an unbeatable Top and smelling of roses!

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