The Round of 16 of the 2013 Spingold faced Cayne and Grue teams, seeding 8 and 9 repectively.
Cayne (8): James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon, Dania FL; Alfredo Versace – Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel
Grue (9): Joe Grue, Las Vegas NV; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Brad Moss, Denver CO; Thomas Bessis, Paris France; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI
After the first 32 boards (played in two 16 boards sets) the match was:
 |  | 1/16 | 17/32 |  |  |
8 | Cayne | 7 | 12 | Â | Â |
9 | Grue | 17 | 67 | Â | Â |
Today we bring you board 30 where an excellent intervention by Grue helped his team score 10 IMPs.
At his table Bessis made a minimum upgrade to his hand… AKQJ97 deserves some extra points and opened 2NT, Bertheau his partner, answered 3NT: Bessis made 4, +430. Surely they must have felt they had done nothing special …
At the other table was lurking Grue and with his intervention he complicated enough the bidding to convert a routine sequence into something special.
Lauria opened his hand with a 1 bid and Versace answered 1NT. This gave Grue the opportunity to show his spade suit: 2
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Lauria doubled showing extras and Moss added pressure with his 3…
Now Versace could have chosen to pass, looking for a penalty double, (Grue would have been two down:-300) but he decided to double showing good values. Lauria could not know that the spades were blocked and that 3NT were cold, so the pair landed in 5…impossible to make…
A,
K y
A signed the death certificate…
PD: Moss lead a little club… he was lucky, declarer had two clubs and no place to pitch the second one…
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