Opponents convention card: Majeure cinquième
Opponents playing strength: Advanced
My hand: ♠ K 8 7 3 2 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♦ A 5 ♣ 8 4
I open 1 spade in 2nd seat. Partner responds 2 diamonds. I bid 2 hearts. He jumps to 4.
West leads the T of spades.
| NORTH ♠ Q ♥ K J 4 ♦ K Q J T 8 4 3 ♣ J 9 | ||
| WEST ♠ T | ||
| SOUTH ♠ K 8 7 3 2 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♦ A 5 ♣ 8 4 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass | 1♠ | ||
| Pass | 2♦ | Pass | 2♥1 |
| Pass | 4♥ | Pass | Pass |
| Pass | |||
| 1Forcing | |||
Well, that sure was an interesting bid on partner's part... Why are we playing in our likely 7 card fit when he has a 7 card suit of his own? On the plus side I have 3 obvious losers in the black suits and 11 obvious winners in the red suits. Unless hearts split 5-1 or worse. So there's not a whole lot to say here... They'll take as many black tricks as they wants and then we win.
West puts me to as much of a test as he can. They take the opening spade trick, then 2 clubs, then lead another club. If East had only 2 clubs and West has 4 hearts they could be setting up a trump trick here. Do I have any play to stop it? Ruffing high on board loses a trick to any 4-2 split. Ruffing in hand loses a trick to any 4-2 split. So I need to ruff low and hope East has a club, or East has 3+ hearts.
He had a club. But I'm not yet out of the woods. I don't have a way to draw trump exclusively here. My only play is to draw two rounds from board and then play a diamond to my hand to draw two more rounds. This loses big when one of them has a diamond void but I don't see any way around it. No one has a diamond void. They made me think a lot more than I thought I'd need to, but it was all for naught. Making 4.
| NORTH ♠ Q ♥ K J 4 ♦ K Q J T 8 4 3 ♣ J 9 | ||
| WEST ♠ T 5 ♥ 9 5 2 ♦ 9 7 2 ♣ A Q 7 6 2 | EAST ♠ A J 9 6 4 ♥ T 8 3 ♦ 6 ♣ K T 5 3 | |
| SOUTH ♠ K 8 7 3 2 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♦ A 5 ♣ 8 4 |
Jack agrees with me all the way!
Ranking after board 50/60: 9/16 with 50.14%
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