M-i-c-k-e-y Mouse

By the time you read this I will be in a car with my sister Judy and her husband Mark.  Ray will be driving and it will be my job to keep him amused.

Very early mornings are not my best time and I usually just let the ipod do the talking.  We are headed to a lovely tennis/gold resort in Orlando.  I don’t know if I can talk anybody into visiting Mickey but if not I will head off myself for a day.  So the bridge and the blogs will be scarce for a while although I do have a game scheduled on Tuesday with Colin, Isabelle and Sondra.

Today I played with Sylvia.  We always have a good time online.  But I broke my rule about bidding grands.  Was this a good thing?  Yeah.

Linda 
AK1054
3
AQJ84 
A8

Sylvia opened 1 and when I bid 1, I was pleased to hear her raise to 2.  Deciding since this was the very last hand to have a thoroughly scientific auction I bid 4NT.  Sylvia showed me the missing ace so I asked about the trump queen.  She bid 6 which I took to be the K and the Q.  The opening lead was the K (did you notice nobody leads a trump against a grand slam any more?)  This was her somewhat disappointing hand.

Sylvia
QJ86
AQ1082
- 
J975

Not that there wasn’t a play for it but I was rather expecting a pretty fast claim if she had the expected king.  The hand is very friendly with the heart king onside doubleton, the diamond king coming down doubleton so pretty well any line works.

Here is the whole hand

	North  2 K6 1097653  KQ43
Linda  AK1054 3 AQJ84  A8		Sylvia QJ86 AQ1082 -  J975
	South 973 J9754 K2  1062

So I suppose this is a Hamman grand and it was reached at the other table and on the identical auction.