Opponents convention card: Dutch Doubleton
Opponents playing strength: Fair
My hand: ♠ 6 ♥ 8 5 ♦ K Q J 9 7 2 ♣ J 9 5 2
East opens 1 heart. I'm feeling frisky so I jump to 3 diamonds. West makes a crazy 4 clubs bid alerted as being a mixed cuebid with support whatever that means. Clicking on it shows he should have at least 17 points and 3 hearts. East settles for 4 hearts. West cuebids 4 spades. East bids Blackwood, West shows 2 aces and the Q of trump and they settle into 6 hearts.
I'm on lead. Diamonds feels safe but I don't know that this is the time for safe. Though maybe partner can just ruff it? Eh, safe it is. I lead the Q of diamonds.
| WEST ♠ A Q J 8 7 4 ♥ Q J T 3 ♦ ♣ A 6 4 | ||
| SOUTH ♠ 6 ♥ 8 5 ♦ K Q J 9 7 2 ♣ J 9 5 2 |
| West | North | East | South |
| 1♥ | 3♦1 | ||
| 4♣2 | Pass | 4♥ | Pass |
| 4♠3 | Pass | 4NT4 | |
| 5♠5 | Pass | 6♥ | All Pass |
| 1Weak | |||
| 1Mixed cue with support | |||
| 1Control in spades for hearts | |||
| 1Ace asking for hearts | |||
| 12 aces and queen of trumps | |||
Q-3 of hearts-8-4. Looks like partner has the A of diamonds and that void is really well placed for the opponents. Declarer decides to play clubs. 4-3-K-5. Now he draws trump. 2-5-T-4. J-6-7-8. A club to the Q. A spade back, finessing into partner's K. Partner cashes a diamond but it gets ruffed on board. Dummy is way up, except declarer has trump so he's up too. Making 6.
There was a chance to set them if I'd gone with my other potential lead. If he takes the spade finesse I get to get a ruff. It seems very wrong for him to try it, but it might have worked. What I did sure didn't.
| NORTH ♠ K 5 3 ♥ 6 4 ♦ A T 8 6 5 ♣ T 7 3 | ||
| WEST ♠ A Q J 8 7 4 ♥ Q J T 3 ♦ ♣ A 6 4 | EAST ♠ T 9 2 ♥ A K 9 7 2 ♦ 4 3 ♣ K Q 8 | |
| SOUTH ♠ 6 ♥ 8 5 ♦ K Q J 9 7 2 ♣ J 9 5 2 |
Captain Jack disagrees with my club play. He wants me to play high to show an even number. I feel like I did exactly that by playing the 5. He wants the 9. The 9 is a little too high for my liking...
Ranking after board 30/60: 3/16 with 55.24%
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