pclayton Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 When your opponents lose their poise at the table, strange and funny things can happen. Playing in the 1st half of a KO semifinal, you and your pard are just putting the wood to two nice ladies with about triple the masterpoints you have. You pick up on board 7: ♠Q9 ♥K ♦AQxxx ♣KT8xx. Red on white you open 1♦; 1♥ by pard, 2♣ by you, 3♥ invitational by pard. Well I'm pushing this thing to game. But 3N may be more playable than 4♥, if pard has a spade stop, some cards in the minors and a marginal heart suit. So I try a 'scientific' 3♠. Not the thing to do with this pard. 4♠ by Pard! WHAT! Didn't he hear my 2♣ call? Well, the 4-2 looks like it will be an interesting spot, and I can't see making 11 tricks of anything. I get the lead of a small spade and see: ♠KJTx♥AQ98xx♦xx♣x ♠Q9♥K♦AQxxx♣KT8xx Rats! Serves me right for messing around. 4♥ is excellent and I can't blame my pard for this one. I win the ♠Q, unblock the ♥K and get the 2 and 3 (std (and honest) count). Thats good news. Spade to the board, ducked again. My 6 heart tricks are about to become DOA. In desparation, I try a 3rd round of spades...small, club from me, DUCK!!!!!!!!!!! I about died. I start playing my hearts and my LHO who made a nice opening lead just turns white. She ruffs the heart with the A♠ and is now in the unbelievable position of being endplayed into giving me my 11th trick. So there was 11 tricks here after all :) :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 Don't forget to congratulate pard on his excellent and well-judged 4S bid :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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