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Friday, October 17, 2008

Finals - Last Set - GoldTown takes on LV




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At the other table the auction was P-1NT-Double-2C;-Double-Pass-3NT, and South led the queen of spades - declarer can't cross to dummy without creating the setting trick, and was -100. In this room LV (Lauria-Versace) reached the nice 4H contract, but Gold found the incredible lead of the heart ten! Versace rose heart ace, and was down, for a push board instead of a swing to Italy.

posted by Glen Ashton @ 3:21 AM  

1 Comments:

  • At 1:35 AM, Blogger David Willis said…

    Glen,

    Some more fun on this hand was to watch Versace's torture on vugraph while he debated which card to play at Trick 1.

    He returned the favour later in the hand by letting Gold torture himself each time he was in (for over 3 minutes on 3 occasions) even when it was pretty clear he was going down 1.

    Finally one of the finer points we have seen with the Italians (and Meckwell) is how they apply constant pressure on their opponents even in seemingly hopeless situations. Later in this hand Lauria ran the C7 in the hope that it would accidentally not be covered by Townsend allowing him to escape.

     

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