Michael Byrne and
Michael Newman won the Ben Franks pairs earlier this month with an
excellent score of 64% over the two sessions.
In the second session they bid and made two grand slams. On the deal above they were the only pair to bid the grand. The auction was
After South opened
and then forced to game with his change of suit jump rebid, North rebid
his spades. South showed a club control with four clubs and North
took charge to find that all the key cards and the king of hearts were held. North then bid the
grand
which must be a good bet after South's strong bidding. On a trump
lead Michael Byrne drew trumps and then trumped a couple of diamonds in
hand to cater for the small extra chance of someone holding KQx of
diamonds if the hearts split 5-1. When the diamonds didn't behave
he also ran the rest of the trumps in case the defence erred, before
playing the hearts.
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