On the second board of a two board set after giving away a top on the first. You doubled a seemingly ridiculous 5
♣ contract that wasn't. It made 12 tricks when "someone" misdefended. You hold this magnificent selection:
♠ | Q T 7 |
♥ | 5 |
♦ | A Q 4 |
♣ | A K Q 7 5 4 |
and partner opens 1
♠! There's not much you want to know about other than the three key cards you're missing, 4NT. 5
♦ from partner showing 1 or 4 is a cold shower. Sadly you sign off in 5
♠ which gets doubled on your left.
The opening lead is a small spade, partner plays small and lefties knave holds. Stomach churning I couldn't look away from the rest of the hand. That's right, LHO doubled holding ♠AKJ and no other tricks. Steaming profusely we drag out the score sheet:
Contract | Declarer | Result | N/S | E/W |
6♠x | S | -2 | | 500 |
6♠x | S | -2 | | 500 |
5♠ | S | -1 | | 100 |
5♣ | N | -2 | | 200 |
6♠x | S | -2 | | 500 |
5♠x | S | -1 | | 200 |
6♠x | S | -2 | | 500 |
6♠ | S | -2 | | 200 |
6NT | N | -3 | | 800 |
6♠x | S | -2 | | 500 |
That's right, freely bid to 5♠, caught an unlucky double, went down one, 78%.
And partner opened on... ?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking you might have run to 5NT bid from your hand, for a top board. But I see 6NT by north goes -3, so partner presumably doesn't have AKQ of hearts and K of diamonds... so I'm guessing he/she opened on something like
9xxxxx - KQJ - KJxx - void
Close?
Partner has one keycard remember. I think the hand was 9xxxx - AKJx - KJxx - void.
ReplyDeleteDifficult to fault the opening but you've only got 8-10 tricks in NT depending how things go.