[PeterAlan]

There was the following rather curious hand in a Swiss Teams event today. I'll give the auction first, but since the diagram editor seems to be a bit picky about what one can create it'll have to be in two halves. It started

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and continued

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By way of comment:

• W's 2♣ was Benji - 8+ playing tricks in some suit or 23+ balanced
  
• E's 4♠ and first XX were expressions of confidence in partner
  
• after N's insufficient 4♥ E seemed to think it might be worth offering W an extra option
  
• S's second X was presumably based on a conviction that her first X couldn't have been a misjudgment
  
• E's final XX seems to have been based on the view that when partner bid 4♠ she knew what she was doing and was more likely to have been right than S

The hands were as follows: N led away from the ♥K; W won perforce, crossed to dummy's ♦Q, and played ♠10; when S didn't cover and W ran it that was 12 tricks for a rather improbable +1880.

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Has anyone else had an auction where the same redoubled contract has been bid twice?

[WellSpyder]

Nice story!

When I saw the title I assumed this was going to be a contract reached at two different tables on the same hand, not twice by the same table on the same hand...

[Cyberyeti]

Not had anything like this, but I have had the unopposed auction 1♠-1♦-1♥-1♠ where you end the auction with 1♠ and are not the declarer.

[billw55]

heheh, good one. South earned his score quite thoroughly!

[Lord Molyb]

Cyberyeti, on 2014-September-22, 04:16, said:

Not had anything like this, but I have had the unopposed auction 1♠-1♦-1♥-1♠ where you end the auction with 1♠ and are not the declarer.

I had an auction that went something like:
2♦ - 2♥ - 2♦ - 2♥
3♦ - 3♥ - 3♦ - 3♥
all pass

Both sides bid their suits twice each and didn't get past the three level.

[Jinksy]

So does that make it 800 or 1600 for each overtrick?