6D in Suffern
At the Suffern regional teams January 18, 2026, I picked up:
6 AKT8 AKJ8653 A
After three passes, playing for the first time with Penny Stoever, seeing no way to proceed scientifically, I opened 6D. Penny struggled, passed, and put down
A964 Q63 T7 JT83
A Diamond lead solved that suit. As I ran the Diamonds, my RHO discarded a couple of Hearts and that suit came in without difficulty to make 7. The other table bid just 5D against my teammates Diana Lack and Jerry Ostrov.
In Florida last week visiting Farley Mawyer and Jill Marshall, a neighboring table had this auction. East was dealer. West passed out of turn. Not seeing West’s pass, East bid 2H (now technically out of turn). Instead of calling the Director to properly penalize East-West, South now bid 3C, accepting their actions. West timidly ventured, “Can I bid now?” The Director, finally called, wasn’t sure what to do and consulted with Jill, before just letting the auction proceed.
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