Greed and Generosity
A quiz in a North London pub asked competitors to name the Seven Deadly Sins and their corresponding Virtues. I was more familiar with the former, but the rest of the team helped with the latter and we scored well. Greed and generosity are a pair, and they were present on this board.

Amazingly, on the most interesting board, the room was flat in 6NT=, and Dr Frances Loughridge and  David Burn had a good auction to the top spot, East bid out his shape with 3D, showing in principle a 4-1-3-5 hand, and Frances bid 5NT asking David to pick a slam. Mindful of the matchpoint scoring, he chose no-trumps.

5NT was a little precipitous in that ♠Axxx ♥x ♦Kxx ♣AQxxx is rather a good grand but I am sure David would have chanced 6H with that, suggesting grand slams in three denominations, but still happy to play in 6NT. Playing Minorwood, West can raise 3D to 4D. Partner will show two without, by bidding 4NT, and now West knows that 7 is at best on a finesse.

The generous souls were the East-West pair who punted the poor 7D, and an equally generous North who led a heart against 6NT, allowing declarer to make 13 tricks without the diamond finesse.  They both shall remain nameless and unsurprisingly they did not trouble the scorers as they say in cricket.

Of course, they needed to be matched by a greedy player, and Ken Rolph, North, was not prepared to take his average, and discouraged diamonds and then bared his king on the run of the clubs. He was disappointed that declarer did not ask what discards they were playing, and even more disappointed when declarer, Peter Nash, eschewed the diamond finesse and dropped his king at trick twelve! The other greedy player was the East who went for the higher-scoring 4-2 spade fit, and picked 6S, and although this was cold, it wouldn't have scored any matchpoints, so his failure to make it was not relevant.