Add the final touches to this modernday Baltimore County farmhouse
Location/Address: 6208 Caswell Ridge Way, Reisterstown
List Price: $824,900 Year built:
2021
Real estate agents: Lisa Alatis-Hapney and Lindsay D. Buck of Monument Sotheby’s International Realty.
Property size: Five bedroom, four bathroom modern farmhouse with a three-car garage on one acre of land.
Unique features: The new owner will design the interior of this modern farmhouse to his or her taste. The 4,000 squarefoot home designed by Greenspring Custom Homes is currently under construction; photos are of a model home in the development. But all residences will have an open floor plan, a gourmet kitchen with a double island, quartz countertops and Wolf appliances, engineered 5-inch plank floors, a spacious porch at the front of the home made for casual entertaining, coffered ceilings, crown moldings, a gas fireplace in the family room and a master suite containing a sun deck.
“My wife likes bidding gadgets,” a player at my club told me. “Goodness knows there are enough of them for her to try. She wanted to play transfer responses to
1NT. Of course, I am the man of my house, so ... we’re playing transfer responses to 1NT.”
My friend showed me today’s deal from a duplicate.
“When I opened 1NT,” he said, “my wife transferred to spades with a two-heart response. My understanding is that I should jump to three spades with my hand
— as a ‘super-accept’ to show a great hand for spades.
“My wife raised to four spades, and West led a low club. I took my ace, drew trumps and led a diamond from dummy to my ten. West won and shifted to the jack of hearts: deuce, ten, ace. When I led the ace and a third diamond next, West won and led another heart, and East took two hearts for down one.
“My wife wasn’t happy. She said she might have bid 3NT, where we had nine top tricks. What’s your opinion of our bidding?”
I tend to use “super-accepts” sparingly, but South’s hand called for one. Bidding 3NT with the North hand would have been asking quite a lot, but South could have made four spades. He must refuse the first club.
If East returns a club, South takes the ace, pitching a diamond from dummy. He draws trumps with the A-K, takes the ace of diamonds and concedes a diamond. If West then leads a heart, South takes the ace and ruffs a diamond in dummy. He can return to his hand with a high trump and discard a heart from dummy on the 13th diamond. He loses one club, one diamond and one heart.
South dealer N-S vulnerable