Why I bore everyone with "never re-open"

[judyo...@gmail.com]

This from the team trials today. NS deals, vulnerable against not.

Q9
J98764
K1085
9

5
K103
AQ97643
J2

2H (3C) 4H (4S)
P (P) 5D (Dbl)
P (5H) P (6D)
P (7C) all pass

(NS gained 2 imps because their team-mates bid 7S)

Carl

[David Goldfarb]

In article <3ac555ca-f528-4f1b...@googlegroups.com>,

I seem to recall that Peter Fredin had opponents who had a
misunderstanding in the bidding -- one of them thought 4S was
a splinter bid, and the other thought it was an offer to play.
So he reopened...with a penalty double! Only to see them go on
to bid and make 7C.

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[Andrew B]

On 08/06/2013 00:23, David Goldfarb wrote:
> In article <3ac555ca-f528-4f1b...@googlegroups.com>,
> judyo...@verizon.net <judyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This from the team trials today. NS deals, vulnerable against not.
>>
>> Q9
>> J98764
>> K1085
>> 9
>>
>> 5
>> K103
>> AQ97643
>> J2
>>
>> 2H (3C) 4H (4S)
>> P (P) 5D (Dbl)
>> P (5H) P (6D)
>> P (7C) all pass
>>
>> (NS gained 2 imps because their team-mates bid 7S)
>
> I seem to recall that Peter Fredin had opponents who had a
> misunderstanding in the bidding -- one of them thought 4S was
> a splinter bid, and the other thought it was an offer to play.
> So he reopened...with a penalty double! Only to see them go on
> to bid and make 7C.

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AKQT5
AT97
KQ76
AKT632 Q98
62 J73
QJ643 K852
- JT8
J754
984
-
A95432

N E S W
1H - 1S 2S
4S - - x
4NT - 5C -
6C - 7C end

Though (according to "Famous Bridge Disasters") Fredin was in fact East,
Eriksson was West. EW made 4Sx on the other table.

[dake50]

Why on earth 5D?
Except to help opponents going up?
South did his best jamming E-W, now let them un-jam????