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[Event "Penalty Pass"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Board "2"]
[West "Matthews"]
[North ""]
[East "Schwartz"]
[South "Bergen"]
[Dealer "E"]
[Vulnerable "NS"]
[Deal "E:54.87.AQT6.AJT53 AKT93.5.94.98642 QJ762.QJ9642.J.Q 8.AKT3.K87532.K7"]
[Scoring ""]
[Declarer "S"]
[Contract "2SX"]
[Result "7"]
{


Gary Schwartz and I traveled to Tampa to play five regional A/X/Y pair games. 
The turnout was not large, but some prominent stars were there, playing with
clients.  Sitting mostly East-West, as is our preference, we sat down against
against Eric Rodwell several times.  We did not play Jeff Meckstroth, who never
played in the same direction as Rodwell.  We also played against Les Bart.  I'm
sure there were others I did not recognize or remember.

This board came up the last time we played against Marty Bergen.  Every round,
he started with the announcement that they play undisciplined preempts, and he
always thinks at trick one on defense.

Having seen some of those preempts, I decided on a penalty pass, going for the
matchpoint top of +200.  This could have boomeranged, as I had a fine heart
suit.  Bergen and I both made reasonable decisions.  The star of the auction
was Gary.  Would you have reopened with a double?

Gary credited his friend Andy Halpern for pointing out decades ago that he did
not need to be worried about hearts.  If I had held a hand where I would hurt
him in hearts, I would already have made a negative double.










2019-05-10 https://3nt.xyz (c) Pete Matthews Jr}
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1D 2S Pass Pass
X AP
[OptimumResultTable "Declarer;Denomination\2R;Result\1R"]
N NT 6
N  S 6
N  H 5
N  D 8
N  C 7
S NT 6
S  S 6
S  H 5
S  D 8
S  C 6
E NT 6
E  S 7
E  H 7
E  D 5
E  C 6
W NT 6
W  S 7
W  H 8
W  D 5
W  C 6
