Opponents convention card: Majeure cinquième
Opponents playing strength: Intermediate
My hand: ♠ A 9 7 3 2 ♥ A 9 6 4 2 ♦ J ♣ A 6
It gets passed to me in 3rd chair and I have a 5-5 hand with 13 points but no intermediate values at all. I have to bid, but I'm not terribly happy with doing so after partner passed. I open 1 spade. Partner raises to 2 spades which is where we play.
West leads the 2 of clubs.
| NORTH ♠ K 8 6 ♥ 7 6 ♦ Q T 6 4 2 ♣ T 9 8 | ||
| WEST ♣ 2 | ||
| SOUTH ♠ A 9 7 3 2 ♥ A 9 6 4 2 ♦ J ♣ A 6 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | Pass | 1♠ | |
| Pass | 2♠ | Pass | Pass |
| Pass |
Well, I have 1 club, 1 heart, and 3 spade tricks. For losers I only have 1 club, 1 diamond, 1 heart, and 1 or 2 spades. But setting up extra tricks seems really hard. I guess I probably need to cross ruff the red suits? I might as well lose my club tricks now to cut communication later in the hand? 2-T-Q-6. 4-A-5-9. I duck a heart. 2-T-7-3. West catches on and returns a spade. Doh. 5-K-4-2. A heart back, ruff a heart. Hearts split 3-3 so my last two hearts are now good.
I guess I should just draw trump and lose a diamond, huh?
I do exactly that. Spades split 3-2 so I make 3.
| NORTH ♠ K 8 6 ♥ 7 6 ♦ Q T 6 4 2 ♣ T 9 8 | ||
| WEST ♠ J 5 ♥ K T 5 ♦ A 7 5 3 ♣ K J 5 2 | EAST ♠ Q T 4 ♥ Q J 3 ♦ K 9 8 ♣ Q 7 4 3 | |
| SOUTH ♠ A 9 7 3 2 ♥ A 9 6 4 2 ♦ J ♣ A 6 |
Captain Jack doesn't like my pass over 2 spades. He wants me to bid 3 spades. Given that partner is a passed hand and that I have no good values I think my pass was fine. But I guess we made 3 and partner only had a 5 count. If he had 9 maybe we could have missed a game with my wimpy bid? But I also feel like we got very lucky to make 3 since I needed hearts to split 3-3 and spades to split 3-2. Besides, the right game try is probably to bid 3 hearts and hope we're double fit!
Ranking after board 49/60: 1/16 with 59.91%
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