Opponents convention card: Jack.
Opponents playing strength: Adequate.
My hand: ♠ T 8 5 3 ♥ 6 4 ♦ J 9 ♣ J 8 7 5 3
Partner opens a weak NT. I wish I knew/remembered what system Jack uses over a weak NT. With my 2 count the opponents have the points for game, and they're vulnerable compared to us being not vulnerable. So I want to chew up bidding space. With Andrew I'd bid 3 clubs to play. Lets see if Jack agrees. Looks like no, since he alerted it. That's scary. He then bid 3 diamonds. I'll pass that out. I feel like we're about to go down a billion.
East leads the A of spades.
NORTH ♠ J 4 ♥ A Q T 2 ♦ A 7 2 ♣ Q T 6 4 | ||
| EAST ♠ A | ||
| SOUTH ♠ T 8 5 3 ♥ 6 4 ♦ J 9 ♣ J 8 7 5 3 |
| West | North | East | South |
| 1NT | Pass | 3♣1 | |
| Pass | 3♦2 | All Pass | 4♥ |
| 1Transfer, weak or game forcing | |||
| 2Transfered | |||
Well, they have 8 trump. I will be taking 1 diamond, and 1 heart. And I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that was all we took. They take the first spade and switch to a diamond. I win and play a second spade in the hopes of somehow setting up a ruff. They win, draw a second round of trump, and return a third spade. So I get my ruff after all. I then play a club and East is nice enough to win and draw more trump. They win some more tricks and eventually lead a heart through my AQT. I go with the Q which wins. I also get the A later. Down 5.
| NORTH ♠ J 4 ♥ A Q T 2 ♦ A 7 2 ♣ Q T 6 4 | ||
| WEST ♠ 7 6 2 ♥ K 9 8 7 ♦ K Q 4 3 ♣ A 9 | EAST ♠ A K Q 9 ♥ J 5 3 ♦ T 8 6 5 ♣ K 2 | |
| SOUTH ♠ T 8 5 3 ♥ 6 4 ♦ J 9 ♣ J 8 7 5 3 |
Professor Jack disagrees with my 3 club bid, but for a very cryptic reason. His complaint is that with two five card suits I should bid the highest first. I don't have two five card suits, Jack. And my bid made perfect sense if we don't play transfers! We're still down which sucks since they didn't have a game, but it seemed like a reasonable gamble at the time. Though if I pass 1NT I feel like they should be able to find a part score at least? Or maybe this is the big advantage of playing weak NTs in that they might not find a good spot to end up. If I'd had just a little more than 2 points I would have passed I think.
It turns out that despite having 25 points the opponents don't really have a good fit and can't really make game. At other tables they went down twice in 3NT and once in 2 spades. They made 2 spades, and 4 diamonds. They did make 3NT up one once, which was the only result worse than mine. At one table my side even made 1NT. So we get 2 MPs. Not bad considering the disastrous bidding! I guess Jack tries to play constructively over a weak NT?
I went into the convention card and turned off transfers over 1NT. I then tried bidding it again, and we end up in 3 clubs. I went down 1 as expected, which was still a bad board. I tried passing out 1NT, but we went down 2. I don't see how we can either make the opponents bid and go down or make anything we bid ourselves. Oh well! At least down 1 or down 2 is better than the two times the opponents made partscores, so we would have done a little better without the bidding mistake.
Ranking after board 9/60: 9/16 with 49.21%
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