"Homemade Pie Day" by Marti Ronemus

As I am writing this, I have the Cooking Channel running in the background. They are highlighting an unbelievably sumptuous Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie and recommending choosing an alternative as the pie weighs in at a terrifying 1085 calories per slice. I. Don't. Care. Keep your banana and give me the pie.

Nothing says love, joy, fun, family, connections, like a slice of pie. Go ahead and have it, just ask for four forks and share. That way we can share the guilt as well as the pleasure.

Question 1

Your Hand
♠ K Q 2
♥ K 3 2
♦ 5 4 3
♣ A K J 10

Q: 1 - South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	2♥	2♠
?

A: 4♥: We have a choice here. It's very tempting with our spectacular hand holding two of their key honors in their suit to double for penalty, but we need too many tricks to gain a positive score of 500. Pard is likely to be a Crummy Dummy since he preempted. Let's settle for what we know we can make.

Your result so far:

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Question 2

Your Hand
♠ K Q
♥ Q J 10 8
♦ Q
♣ A K Q J 4 3

Q: 2 - South?

South	West	North	East
1♣	2♣**	Pass	2♠***
?

**Michaels cuebid, 5-5 in the majors
***Minimum response

A: 2 No-trump: Let's think this through. We've got one Spade trick, six clubs and assorted waiting Hearts. Pard doesn't rate to be broke so he should be able to contribute one trick, don't you think? Let's show our stoppers and VERY nice hand and await further developments.

Your result so far:

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Question 3

Your Hand
♠ A J
♥ K J 10 9
♦ A K Q J 2
♣ 4 3

Q: 3 - South:

South	West	North	East
-	1♣	Pass	Pass
Dbl	Pass	1 No-trump	Pass
?

A: 3 No-trump: Pard's 1 No-trump response to our Double shows 6-9 ish pts and a Club stopper. Just what we need. We can see nine tricks and can't possibly give up now.

Your result so far:

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Question 4

Your Hand
♠ K J 5 4
♥ 10 8 2
♦ K 8 4
♣ K 8 4

Q: 4 - South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	1 No-trump	Pass
?

A: 3 No-trump: Easy as pie, you say? (Anyone who's tried making homemade pie crust knows pie isn't easy, btw.) You're right. However, often people forget, "No shortness, no Stayman." Your hand has no ruffing value whatsoever, so put your Pard in a contract where he only needs nine tricks.

Your result so far:

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Question 5

Your Hand
♠ A 9 3
♥
♦ A Q J 10 8 7 6
♣ K J 9

Q: 5 - South?

South	West	North	East
1♦	Pass	3 No-trump**	Pass
?

**Shows 15-17, suggests stoppers in unbid suits

A: 6♦: Why would you ask Pard for aces? He's got 15-17 pts. You sure don't want to be in No-trump either. Pard's stopper might be a deep one.

Well, that was a lot of work and we still have our hand to play. The good news is that there's a piece of pie at the end of the rainbow.

Your result so far:

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