[pilowsky]

After some extremely careful bidding, where GIB and I danced around the head of a pin, Buck Mulligan's face smiled with delight and bid 7♠.
Usually, when this happens and Kinch or Stephen don't double I figure I'm safe, the lead will be made and I can just claim and gaze out across the parapet to the roiling sea while stroking my stubble with my palps.
Not this time.
West leads the ♥5 which I politely collect in hand and claim: rejected.

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In the end, I made it, but it seems it was divine intervention and not good judgement.
So did three others.

[Tramticket]

You claimed at trick 1? The defenders can now see all of the cards and are defending double dummy. And they still bungled the discards?

[pilowsky]

I know right. That's GIB for you "suckers and losers". It comes from a best hand Daylong - proof if you needed it - that the robots don't peek!

[Cyberyeti]

Am I being stupid, I can't see what happened in the play anywhere, it seems to be a very good contract, trumps 3-2 or if they're 4-1 then you need clubs 5-2 or better or stiff J.

[Tramticket]

Cyberyeti, on 2020-October-23, 03:04, said:

Am I being stupid, I can't see what happened in the play anywhere, it seems to be a very good contract, trumps 3-2 or if they're 4-1 then you need clubs 5-2 or better or stiff J.

No I was being stupid and playing it in NT

[pilowsky]

OK, I also thought it was a pretty good contract. I was pretty happy with myself all the way through and kept claiming and GIB kept refusing. Finally I just played it out.
Then, when I went over it the double dummy was saying I should go -1 at trick 6. but I still can't see it!!!
Here's how I played it.
I must have done something wrong, but escaped.

[Cyberyeti]

As to auction, what was 3♣ ? Normal 4 card stayman ?

Our auction would be:

2N-3♣(5 card non puppet stayman)
3♦(no 5M not 2-3 or 2-2 in the majors)-3♥(4)
3♠(4)-4♥(cue agreeing ♠)
4N(RKCB)-5♦(1/4)
5♥(Q♠?)-6♥ (yes and as I've already shown ♥K with the cue, this shows the Q)
7♠

You can place partner with AQxx, KQxx, and 5 minor suit cards, so the grand cannot be worse than spades 3-2 and could easily be cold.

[pilowsky]

Yes, GIB alerted Stayman
5NT SKA

[Cyberyeti]

pilowsky, on 2020-October-23, 04:22, said:

Yes, GIB alerted Stayman
5NT SKA

In which case it's an awful auction, N could have got Kxxx, Axx, AJx, AKJ as the S hand where 6 is not certain although decent

[pilowsky]

Cyberyeti, on 2020-October-23, 04:32, said:

In which case it's an awful auction, N could have got Kxxx, Axx, AJx, AKJ as the S hand where 6 is not certain although decent

Awful perhaps, but very standard GIB. Pays yer money, takes what yer given...

[Cyberyeti]

pilowsky, on 2020-October-23, 03:54, said:

OK, I also thought it was a pretty good contract. I was pretty happy with myself all the way through and kept claiming and GIB kept refusing. Finally I just played it out.
Then, when I went over it the double dummy was saying I should go -1 at trick 6. but I still can't see it!!!
Here's how I played it.
I must have done something wrong, but escaped.

Yes you drew too many trumps, cash the QJ and when they don't break, ruff the third club high, then draw trumps

[pilowsky]

The robots were kind.

[FrancesHinden]

pilowsky, on 2020-October-23, 05:30, said:

The robots were kind.

I suspect the robots were kind because in their simulations, the hand you actually had was excluded, because if you had that hand you could simply have ruffed a club in dummy.