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| West | North | East | South |
| 1♥ | p | 1♠ | p |
| 2♣ | p | 3♣ | p |
| 4♦ | p | 4♥ | p |
| 4NT | p | 5♣ | p |
| 5NT | p | 6♣ | p |
| 6♠ | p | p | p |
Making 6S was no problem, of course. Declarer ruffed the lead in dummy, played H AK and ruffed a H, cashed SQ, crossed to CA, and drew trumps - 13 tricks, for a nice score.
7S is cold on the given layout ... but Aruf either didn't notice, or he didn't dare risk bidding it.
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Of the hands on this site, this one has to be among the hardest to understand, but not so much from Aruf's side of the table, but from his parnters.
The vulnerability is useful (opp vul, aruf is not), and at imps. i can understand 1S as a psyche. Partner rates to have at most 4S and possibly less. Given the 1S bid, looking at WEST's monster, i can not understand 2C (it was not alerted as gazilli or similar). Having psyhced 1S and heard a weak 2C response, what else can you do at these colors but raise clubs? Surely NS might have a vulnerable game given you 5 card club 'fit'.
Over 4D (presumably and actually a splinter, problem is it is for spades but the psycher has no idea). bidding 4H hoping partner will pass sometime quick makes sense here.
4NT (blackwood), 5C (honest), 5NT (no idea what aruf's partner hoped to hear after this, he had AK of spades, aK of hearts and AK of clubs and a void... was it asking for kings? Was it pick a slam?), what else but 6c as Aruf, playing in your club fit. 6S finally showing support.
I can believe Aruf's bidding here, as long as his psyches Aruf's only funny bid was his "psyche". His partner's bidding was, well, highly unusual for every bid.
1H with that monster
2C which is passable
4D (ok, ok, at least now forcing)
4NT - guess DA would provide place for 3rd D,
5NT - no idea what this was
6S - how can he not bid seven with his monster.
For the record, i could not find any evidence of "not cheating" from this day, and aruf and his partner won this event. This one hand is not enough to prove cheating, but would get me very curious if this type of thing occurs often.
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