Another watcha gonna do hand

[Double !]

I guess people might be wondering what happened on the hand.

 

First of all, I want to thank all who answered for taking the time to respond.

 

I elected to overcall 1NT and played it there, making +180 against, shall we say, less-than-optimum defense. My lho elected to lead her partner's suit as opposed to her AT6th spade suit (that lho elected to not bid). My lovely partner tabled

♠ 97xx

♥ T 3

♦ J x

♣ A T x x x

 

My rho elected to play the ♥ King ("3rd hand high"- of course) when I played low from the dummy (I had a feeling he would do so), and Clubs broke 2-1.

+180 was worth about 0.8 imps at the time. (it would have been +150 had lho led spade: rho had KQ tight, or +120 had the spades been 5-3, not such a good result.)

 

I am not a results player, so I really don't care much about the actual results on this hand. I was more interested to see what action, if any, that people would take over the 1♥ opening including whether or not anyone would support a 1NT overcall. (I, personally, like to overcall or open 1NT as much as makes sense because it often makes things easier on partner. Who was it that said "rules were made to be broken"?)

 

Kudos to those who overcalled 2♣ on this hand with that yucky 5-card suit, and would have then been able to reach the cold 5♣ contract (assuming clubs broke and the heart king was onside).

 

Again, thanks to y'all.

 

 

DHL

[mike777]

hmm somewhat shocking. we have 16 hcp, unbalanced and bid our longest suit first. hmmmmm