Neither side vulnerable. South deals. North S: Q J 6 5 H: Q 9 7 4 3 D: 7 6 C: J 4 West East S: 10 9 S: 7 4 3 H: J 8 6 H: 10 5 2 D: A Q 10 9 8 D: K J 5 4 C: 10 2 C: Q 8 6 3 South S: A K 8 2 H: A K D: 3 2 C: A K 9 7 5 The Bidding: South West North East 1C 1D Dbl Pass 4S (All Pass) Opening lead: C10 If you look hard enough you can always find a bridge game. Irene and I were on vacation in Aruba and I found TWO bridge games. ACtually there were three but one game had been cancelled that week. This hand came up at the Aruba Ariba Bridge Club which meets on Tuesday evenings at the Talk of the Town Beach Club. The auction was simple as far as I could see. The contract was pretty solid and the lead did not hurt. In fact, if the spades were 3-2 and the hearts were 3-3 I was going to make a lot of tricks. I won the ace of clubs and played the ace and king of spades. Both defenders followed and I played the ace and king of hearts. Again, both defenders followed. Things were looking good. I played a spade to the dummy and then called for the queen of hearts. When hearts broke I was able to discard both diamonds and a small club. Now a club to the king and a club ruffed in dummy allowed me to ruff a diamond in hand and the nine of clubs was good for the last trick. I was sure that three overtricks was going to be very good, but when the scores were posted we were the only North-South pair in game. It seems that Irene's negative double, which I thought was very standard, was an unusual bid for the players in this game. They would want to have more points to make this bid. Our 59% game was good enough for second place out of 15 pairs.