My hand: ♠ T ♥ K J 9 6 2 ♦ A T ♣ A J 6 5 2
Partner opens 1NT in second seat and East passes. I bid 2 diamonds as a transfer to hearts. Partner super accepts by jumping to 3 hearts. I cuebid 4 clubs and partner cuebids 4 spades. I bid 4NT to make sure partner has the A of trump. He bids 5 spades showing 2 keycards with the Q of trump. We have all the aces and trump locked up solid. I bid 5NT to check for kings. Partner bids 6 diamonds showing only 1 king. I know of 13 of his points, so he has between 2 and 4 points in Q's and J's. If those points are in clubs we can probably make 7, but I don't want to risk it. We're still short two kings, after all. I bid 6 hearts and everyone passes. East leads the 7 of diamonds.
| NORTH ♠ A J 3 ♥ A Q 8 3 ♦ K Q J 4 ♣ 7 3 | ||
| EAST ♦ 7 | ||
| SOUTH ♠ T ♥ K J 9 6 2 ♦ A T ♣ A J 6 5 2 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | 1NT | Pass | 2♦1 |
| Pass | 3♥2 | Pass | 4♣3 |
| Pass | 4♠4 | Pass | 4NT5 |
| Pass | 5♠6 | Pass | 5NT7 |
| Pass | 6♦8 | Pass | 6♥ |
| Pass | Pass | Pass | |
| 1Transfer | |||
| 2Super-accept (5 hearts or 4 hearts and max) | |||
| 3Control in clubs for hearts | |||
| 4Control in spades for hearts | |||
| 5Blackwood for hearts | |||
| 62 aces and queen of trump | |||
| 7King ask | |||
| 71 king | |||
Well, I have 5 hearts, 1 spade, 4 diamonds, and a club right off the top. I need to find a 12th trick somewhere which could easily be 2 spade ruffs on board or a club ruff in hand. There's no way to get a 13th trick so I should just take the safest path to 12 which has to be win this on board, draw trump and concede a club. The first diamond doesn't get ruffed and hearts split 3-1 so there's really nothing to the play. Making 6.
| NORTH ♠ A J 3 ♥ A Q 8 3 ♦ K Q J 4 ♣ 7 3 | ||
| WEST ♠ Q 9 8 4 2 ♥ T ♦ 9 6 3 2 ♣ K Q T | EAST ♠ K 7 6 5 ♥ 7 5 4 ♦ 8 7 5 ♣ 9 8 4 | |
| SOUTH ♠ T ♥ K J 9 6 2 ♦ A T ♣ A J 6 5 2 |
Professor Jack disagrees with my 5NT bid. He says it's the wrong time to try for slam and would just bid 6 hearts. I guess it wasn't really possible that I could build a hand for partner that would go to 7 so I was just revealing information to the opponents by asking.
On the replay the auction is almost identical. They're playing normal Blackwood instead of keycard so North shows just 2 aces. South bids 6 hearts instead of asking for kings.
They got the same lead and took the same line of play. Also making 6.
Nick: 980
Jack: 980
IMPs: 0 (-6 total)
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