Just for laughs

[David Stevenson]

I held

QTxx
Kxxx
ATx
AJ

and partner, a client, opened a short club. 2S by RHO, so I doubled.
Partner bid 3C, so I bid 3NT. The lead was the DJ.

J
AQxx
Kx
KQTxxx

QTxx
Kxxx
ATx
AJ

Ok, why did she not bid hearts? No idea!

Anyway, I won the DK and ran a few clubs. West discarded a heart and
two diamonds, then the SA.

Now I was fully awake! Not a 5-0 heart break? Good bid partner!

West, of course, has been strip-squeezed, so four rounds of hearts put
him in to give me the DT for my twelfth! He grunted and wrote 0 as an
estimate and Fix next to it!

At the end of the night I was surprised to find it was an average,
plus Deep says 6NT is cold! It turned out that the other scores were:

4Sx-4
4Sx-4
4Hx-1
4Hx-1

I am sure 4H is cold but that is not the point. I also realised you
can rectify the count since West's SA is singleton then squeeze him in
the reds. Goodness knows why people reached 4S with a trump suit of
K9xxxx opposite A.

--
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[Adam Beneschan]

Surely RHO had seven spades? And you don't give the vulnerability, but if it was your side vul and the opponents NV, players who are as insane as I am may have bid 4S (instead of 2S) just because they had seven of them. Players who are even more insane than that may bid 4S at other vulnerabilities.

-- Adam

[Travis Crump]

On 01/04/2013 11:33 AM, David Stevenson wrote:
>
> I held
>
> QTxx
> Kxxx
> ATx
> AJ
>
> and partner, a client, opened a short club. 2S by RHO, so I doubled.
> Partner bid 3C, so I bid 3NT. The lead was the DJ.
>
> J
> AQxx
> Kx
> KQTxxx
>
> QTxx
> Kxxx
> ATx
> AJ
>
> Ok, why did she not bid hearts? No idea!
>
> Anyway, I won the DK and ran a few clubs. West discarded a heart and
> two diamonds, then the SA.
>
> Now I was fully awake! Not a 5-0 heart break? Good bid partner!
>
> West, of course, has been strip-squeezed, so four rounds of hearts put
> him in to give me the DT for my twelfth! He grunted and wrote 0 as an
> estimate and Fix next to it!
>

If LHO has pitched the SA can't you just exit a spade as well? You've
pitched 2 hearts and 2 spades on the clubs, but would still have 6
clubs, 1 spade, 3 hearts, and 2 diamonds.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <MKf83AFO...@blakjak.demon.co.uk>,

David Stevenson <bri...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I held
>
> QTxx
> Kxxx
> ATx
> AJ
>
> and partner, a client, opened a short club. 2S by RHO, so I doubled.
> Partner bid 3C, so I bid 3NT. The lead was the DJ.
>
> J
> AQxx
> Kx
> KQTxxx
>
> QTxx
> Kxxx
> ATx
> AJ
>
> Ok, why did she not bid hearts? No idea!

Aren't mysteries like this the fun part of playing with clients?

>
> Anyway, I won the DK and ran a few clubs. West discarded a heart and
> two diamonds, then the SA.
>
> Now I was fully awake! Not a 5-0 heart break? Good bid partner!
>
> West, of course, has been strip-squeezed, so four rounds of hearts put
> him in to give me the DT for my twelfth! He grunted and wrote 0 as an
> estimate and Fix next to it!
>
> At the end of the night I was surprised to find it was an average,
> plus Deep says 6NT is cold! It turned out that the other scores were:
>
> 4Sx-4
> 4Sx-4
> 4Hx-1
> 4Hx-1
>
> I am sure 4H is cold but that is not the point. I also realised you
> can rectify the count since West's SA is singleton then squeeze him in
> the reds. Goodness knows why people reached 4S with a trump suit of
> K9xxxx opposite A.

What did the TD say when you called him because there were only 12
spades in this deck?

--
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA

[David Stevenson]

Adam Beneschan wrote

True - but the only people who I would have thought might bid 4S were
myself and a couple of players who were not there that night. The
trouble with the vulnerability is that I cannot remember [since it did
not really affect me] but I think I would have remembered Red [v v nv].
My guess is that it was White [nv v vn].

[David Stevenson]

David Stevenson wrote

>White [nv v vn].

A Spoonerism! White [nv v nv].

[richlp]

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At the risk of again looking VERY foolish.......

I have 6C, 2D, 3H (if my arithmetic is correct that's 11 tricks).

I pitch two heart and two spades fromm hand on dummy's clubs. Have I
given up anything by making these pitches? Is there something better
that involves coming down to just one spade?

Now when the Spade Ace is discarded I have a 12th trick is spades just
by playing one. Nothing fancy or convoluted.

OK....what did I miss?

[David Stevenson]

richlp wrote

>At the risk of again looking VERY foolish.......
>
>I have 6C, 2D, 3H (if my arithmetic is correct that's 11 tricks).
>
>I pitch two heart and two spades fromm hand on dummy's clubs. Have I
>given up anything by making these pitches? Is there something better
>that involves coming down to just one spade?
>
>Now when the Spade Ace is discarded I have a 12th trick is spades just
>by playing one. Nothing fancy or convoluted.
>
>OK....what did I miss?

Nothing. Anyone can play hands better than me when they know all the
hands: Deep Finesse does it all the time.

I pitched spades to keep hearts: it was not obviously wrong, and since
I made twelve tricks and you make twelve tricks, not so obviously
inferior.

--
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