To paraphrase E.L. Wisty, the late, great Peter Cook’s alter ego, ‘Some people are born lazy, some become lazy and some have laziness thrust upon them.’ If you are any of these, there are going to be some contracts that you could make but don’t. I speak from years of experience!
The more we play, the better we become at recognising patterns and we instinctively know how to play many hands. But even for the best players, hands do come along where the only way to find the right line is to play it through in your head, all the way to the end.
This hand stumped an international player, when he didn’t put enough work in. Would you have done any better? (See Diagram)
N/S certainly didn’t leave anything unbid; when North found out about his partner’s solid Spades and the ♣K, he pushed all the way to the reasonable grand.
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