Another slam at the office

I just discovered the cool toolkit for bloggers here, so I couldn’t wait to use some of the prefabricated templates for hand and auction layouts. This next hand was immediately after the star play by Darren Wolpert in 6D. In fact there were seven slams bid and made in this match!

Dealer: W Vul: NS		North (Keith)
		♠	A4
		♥	K875
		♦	43
		♣	AJ874
West (Daniel)				East (Darren)
♠	K8532			♠	QJ76
♥	2			♥	VOID
♦	K75			♦	Q109862
♣	Q1096			♣	K52
		South (Ross)
		♠	109
		♥	AQJ109643
		♦	AJ
		♣	3

 The bidding went as follows:

Everyone passed 6H.

1NT was 11-14, 3D was a transfer to hearts and forcing to game. 3S was a super acceptance cue bid in support of hearts. 4C was also a cue bid. Keith loved his hand within the context of this auction, and proferred 5C. I needed no more encouragement and quickly jumped to 6H.

The lead was a small spade, and you can see this is a gorgeous 24 pt slam with only two wasted jacks between the two hands. I claimed 12 tricks, saying I would use the board’s trump entries to establish the fifth round of clubs for my twelvth trick. Realistically, if the clubs were worse than 4-3, I had no play