My hand: ♠ A T 9 4 2 ♥ Q 6 3 ♦ K 9 8 ♣ T 5
East opens 1 club in 2nd chair. I double. West bids 1 heart and partner jumps to 3 diamonds. East bids 3 hearts. I bid 3 spades and partner raises to 4. East doubles for penalty. Should I run to 5 diamonds? Diamonds is probably a better spot but I doubt it's two tricks better so I pass as does everyone else.
West leads the 9 of clubs.
NORTH ♠ J 3 ♥ 7 5 ♦ A 7 4 3 2 ♣ K Q 6 4 | ||
| WEST ♣ 9 | ||
| SOUTH ♠ A T 9 4 2 ♥ Q 6 3 ♦ K 9 8 ♣ T 5 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | 1♣ | Double | |
| 1♥ | 3♦ | 3♥ | 3♠ |
| Pass | 4♠ | Double1 | All Pass |
| 1Penalty | |||
Huh. I guess we don't have a double fit. I wonder why partner decided to raise. I was just competing. I have 3 spades, 1 club, and 2 diamond tricks. I don't exactly have a lot of play for more tricks. I might be able to pick up a spade honour, or ruff a heart, or maybe win my T of clubs if West lead the 9 from J9(x).
That doesn't seem very likely. 9-K-A-5. East returns the A of hearts. A-6-2-5. East shifts back to clubs. J-T-3-Q. I can get my heart ruff now, so I go for it. 7-K-3-4. Guess I don't need to get a ruff after all, since my Q is now good.
East comes back with yet another club. Could clubs really be 5-2? Yes, I think they are. Can I gain by pitching a diamond loser instead of ruffing? Not really, since West will just pitch too and East will play another high club afterwards. So I ruff highish. 8-9 of spades-5 of diamonds-4. I think it's time to put a stop to that by pitching my last club. I cash a heart. Q-T-6 of clubs-8.
I play a diamond up to board so I can finesse spades. 8-6-A-T. 3-5-T-K. West fires back a diamond. Q-2-J-K. My diamond in hand is actually high now, once I finish dealing with spades. Cashing the A is only terrible when spades split 4-1, but nothing is good when that's true. So I do it anyway. A-6-J-Q. West still has a high spade. Down 2, doubled. Oh, what's this? Spades actually were 4-2 since we didn't have a fit. Right. West has two high spades and I didn't force him to ruff a diamond so I'm actually down 4. Oops.
| NORTH ♠ J 3 ♥ 7 5 ♦ A 7 4 3 2 ♣ K Q 6 4 | ||
| WEST ♠ K 8 7 6 ♥ J T 4 2 ♦ Q 6 5 ♣ 9 3 | EAST ♠ Q 5 ♥ A K 9 8 ♦ J T ♣ A J 8 7 2 | |
| SOUTH ♠ A T 9 4 2 ♥ Q 6 3 ♦ K 9 8 ♣ T 5 |
Professor Jack disagrees with my double. He says it promises 11 points and wants me to overcall instead. I don't like that thought process. I can see the case for saying I should pass, but double vs overcall shouldn't be a points thing. It should be a distribution thing. And with reasonable support for all 3 other suits and no concentration of power in spades, well, I like double. He then dislikes 3 spades and wants me to pass. My think was I wanted partner to know my distribution in case he had a good sac over 4 hearts since we're white on red. Clearly we were on different pages here, since he sacced before they even made it to 4 hearts and didn't have a good sac since he only had 2 spades.
Duriing the play, Jack doesn't want me to pitch a club when I cash my heart Q. He wants me to pitch a very irrelevant diamond. I don't see why. He then doesn't want me to draw trump. He wants me to just run diamonds. Finally he disagrees with exiting a low trump at the end which was clearly wrong. I just lost count of spades when I did it. That one's on me for sure.
On the replay they get to 3 hearts and stop. It turns out this is actually too high for them, and they go down 1.
Looking at it again, why did my partner jump to 3 diamonds? I took it as being weak which is why I was thinking of needing to sac over 4 hearts. But he did have a 10 count, and a misfit 10-count at that since most of his power is in the suit I doubled for takeout.
Nick: -800
Jack: 100
IMPs: -14 (-34 total)
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