Hi all
I don’t often put brands, recommendations or advertisements here, but for Tap House in downtown Seattle I make an exception. With 160 beers on draft it was a pleasure to cool off after a day of bridge. The picture below shows their Honor Society selection. I’ve experienced most of them from bottle, but some of them I didn’t even know existed on draft. The Gulden Draak was out of this world!
This deal is from the Open Swiss. I wasn’t full awake yet (no beer cause!). Geoff leads a high-ish 
after the opponents bid 1NT – 4NT – 6NT.
Declarer wins the in dummy and asks for the 
King. Sleepily I win my Ace and return a . Subsequently I see declarer hooking the 
Ten and then squeezing Geoff out of his red suits so the 
suit comes in for 4 tricks and the contract.
The solution is easy: duck the Ace twice. The count not rectified, declarer is unable to get to more than 11 tricks. I’m glad the opponent in my seat was just as awake as I was.
6 is on ice, though. And in my mind a Baron-esque sequence should get an IMPs player to the safest contract. Here’s what I suggest:
- Quantitative
- Accepting the quantitative raise, requesting to bid four card suits up the line
Cheers!