November, 2007 --
The Becker ARchives have been exhausted!
Here is a set of 10 deals collected by Larry Cohen from tournaments over the past few years.  Future sets of 10 to appear in coming months.
Shown is the best contract. I wish I had time to write up suggested auctions, but ...
See "Bidding Challenge" if you want a full write up (go to BOOKS & CD's from the HOME PAGE).


1) 6D
2) 6H
3) 6H (or 6D, second best)
4) 6C
5) 7D (7C went down on losing H finesse)
6) 6D (6C decent but down)
7) 6C
8) 4H (Better than 4S, which fails-HK wrong)
9) 5D (4H and 6D are OK, but 5D was only one that made)
10) 5C