Question: Should North have brought the N/S team to game in Spades?Vic:
NO! I hope to kiss a rhino
they should not have.
Many modern day players are
not shy about opening the auction in 3rd seat holding less than a standard
opening hand point count (enter East). Still, East must have
"something".
A common partnership
agreement is that the 1S overcall by South could be as weak as 8 HCPS. The
2H bid by West (a passed hand initially) also promises
"something".
Given that North has 8 HCPs
in their own hand, it is reasonable for them to imagine that South has a
standard opening hand at best. Why on earth would North want to make more than
a simple raise in spades?
My hand analysis program
tells me that NS "deserve" to make 4S. But that is true only if
declarer plays the spade suit WRONG. Specifically, declarer must play for the
Spade Queen to drop doubleton, rather than finesse. A classic example of a hand
where "bad bridge" rules.
Ain't bridge a great game?
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