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“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.”– Thomas JeffersonToday’s deal comes from a recent U.S. Nationals, where IMP scoring was in place. What that means is that, just like in a team game, the swings on the big deals would determine whether you did well or badly, unlike in the standard pair game, where every deal is equally important.

The deal came up in the first final session of the IMP Pairs. The author indicated that he was lucky enough to be the beneficiary of a gift here, but that names would not be used, to protect the guilty.