{"id":3364,"date":"2023-03-12T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2023-05-04T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:08:16","slug":"an-impossible-3nt-in-lebhar-imp-pairs-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2023\/03\/12\/an-impossible-3nt-in-lebhar-imp-pairs-at-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impossible 3NT in Lebhar IMP Pairs at Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Made the following impossible 3NT playing with Mark Blanchard at the national Lebhar IMP Pairs in New Orleans March 12, 2023. As North I dealt and passed, East opened 1S, Blanch overcalled 2D, I raised to 3D, Blanch bid 3H, and I bid 3N. When dummy comes down, it is apparent that the opponents can cash at least 5 Clubs and the SA. On the lead of the S8 I have eight top tricks, but where is the ninth? The Heart finesse seems unlikely. So I need East to lead a Heart or a Spade. I desperately lead the CQ from dummy. When the expert East wins with the CK, it is “obvious” that I have CAJ as well as the SK, that his partner has the HA, and that his best shot is to lead to his partner’s HA and get a Spade back through me. His Heart play gives me my ninth trick. He was astounded when he realized what had happened.<\/p>\n

I loved the New Orleans Nationals, with one sorry exception: the literary quality of the limericks. To remedy this unfortunate situation, I hereby submit the following (featured on the May 4, 2023, Sorry Partner<\/a> podcast):<\/p>\n

While trying my hand at Pairs Silly*
\nI suddenly brought out Gazilli.
\nPard jumped to a grand
\nWith no Ace in his hand;
\nI guess I’ll just have to Ask Billy.<\/p>\n

*term for the Silidor Pairs, courtesy Adam Grossack.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>See also TV clip<\/a>\u00a0(opening with the back of my head) from Good Morning New Orleans.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Made the following impossible 3NT playing with Mark Blanchard at the national Lebhar IMP Pairs in New Orleans March 12, 2023. As North I dealt and passed, East opened 1S, Blanch overcalled 2D, I raised to 3D, Blanch bid 3H, and I bid 3N. When dummy comes down, it is apparent that the opponents can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}