My hand: ♠ 7 ♥ K J 8 6 ♦ A 9 8 ♣ J T 8 6 4
I pass. West opens 2 clubs, strong. Partner passes. East bids 2 diamonds, waiting. Jack refuses to clarify what that means. I pass and West bids 2 spades. East bids 3 hearts which appears to be game forcing with a heart suit. West bids 3 spades, East goes to 4 which is passed out. Partner leads the 9 of clubs.
North ♣ 9 | ||
East ♠ 9 3 ♥ T 9 7 5 4 3 ♦ J ♣ K Q 3 2 | ||
| SOUTH ♠ 7 ♥ K J 8 6 ♦ A 9 8 ♣ J T 8 6 4 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | |||
| 2♣1 | Pass | 2♦2 | Pass |
| 2♠3 | Pass | 3♥ | Pass |
| 3♠ | Pass | 4♠ | All Pass |
| 1Strong | |||
| 2Waiting | |||
| 3Forcing | |||
Unless partner underlead his A it looks like declarer has 3 club tricks. Oh well, not much I can do about that. 9-2-T-A. Declarer exits a diamond. 4-K-J-?. If partner lead a stiff club then I could overtake and give him a ruff. But if he wanted me to get in, why didn't he duck the diamond? Hopefully he'll return a trump to cut down on diamond ruffs in dummy. I play the 8.
Partner doesn't return a club or a trump. Instead he plays the Q of hearts. I encourage. Q-3-8-A. Declarer ruffs a diamond. 5-3-3 of spades-9. Then he draws trump. 9-7-A-8. And another. K-T-3 of clubs-?. Declarer can have at most 2 clubs left in his hand and has 2 high clubs on board so I don't see any reason to keep my clubs. I pitch the 4. Declarer plays a club. 7-5-Q-8. And another. K-8-q of diamonds-2 of diamonds.
It turns out partner has the Q of spades so he gets to take it as well. Declarer has the rest since he started with 7 spades. Making 5.
| NORTH ♠ Q T 8 ♥ Q 2 ♦ K T 7 6 3 2 ♣ 9 5 | ||
| WEST ♠ A K J 6 5 4 2 ♥ A ♦ Q 5 4 ♣ A 7 | EAST ♠ 9 3 ♥ T 9 7 5 4 3 ♦ J ♣ K Q 3 2 | |
| SOUTH ♠ 7 ♥ K J 8 6 ♦ A 9 8 ♣ J T 8 6 4 |
On the replay the auction is the same. The play differs at the start with Jack following Professor Jack's plan. He does return a club, hoping partner lead a singleton. It really doesn't matter as declarer still has 2 losers. Making 5.
Nick: -650
Jack: -650
IMPs: 0 (-26 total)
2 comments:
2 diamonds "waiting" apparently doesn't say anything about your hand at all. It's purely a relay back to declarer asking them to describe their hand more.
Bidding over 2 clubs in standard systems has never made sense to me. There never seems to be enough space to work out what level to play at. (3? 4? 6? 7?)
I don't remember the structure we used, but Sky and I had a great system to help by using two different strong bids and a step system of responses. It also let us play 2NT as a terrible preempt in one of the minors, which is apparently an illegal bid at many tournament levels.
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