Sunday, November 19, 2006

Close one

Here's one from a club evening friday evening:

Dealer:North
Vul:EW
Scoring:MP
x
KJxxx
QJxx
Axx
QT9x
xxx
KTxx
xx
A8xx
Ax
x
KQTxxx
KJxx
Qxx
Axxx
Jx

Playing f2f with my MOSCITO partner, he opens the bidding with 1 (showing 9-15HCP, 4+, can have a longer minor) and RHO intervenes 2. I have an easy takeout double, LHO passes and partner bids 2 showing 5-4 or 4-5. I bid 2 showing an invitational hand with 3 support (with weaker I would've just supported immediately, even with 4 - it's the system). LHO and partner pass, and RHO balances with 2. Now what? Well, I decided to just double, since I wasn't sure about a good fit. Partner decided to pass it in. I disagree with this decision, because we have a double fit and it seems logical that opps will also have a double fit. Playing 2 anything will probably be easy, and they also know where to find the s. Even though we're NV vs V and may have an easy +200 it's too risky imo.

Anyway, the full auction:
1! - 2 - Dbl - pass
2 - pass - 2 - pass
pass - 2 - Dbl - pass
pass - pass

I start with A and don't like what I see in dummy! My J will be caught in a finesse and I just made K high (and chance is that RHO doesn't even has one!). RHO seems still to have one, so I switch to . RHO takes his Ace and plays a small . It's imo quite clear that he wants to try to discard a on his K so I take K and play Q and another . RHO ruffs and plays K which partner takes. He returns a which RHO takes with the Q catching my J and he plays for some reason small to his Queen!!! Because we cut off declarer's communication, I think he thought he could only make it if s would split 3-2, which is virtually impossible. The winning line of play is to just run and make me ruff... Now he's completely screwed. He cashes K and ruffs a with trump Ace and plays T. This is what's left in dummy:
T9
T
And I still have:
Jx
x
Partner still holding QJ we still have to make 2 tricks. If I discard my I'll only make 1 more trump trick, if I ruff with the Jack dummy discards his losing , so the only way to make 2 tricks is to ruff low!

+200 was a nice top, and both me and my partner had a bit of excitement because the downtrick seemed very far away. All decisions turned out to be great: the switch was necessary to make declarer ruff, I had to take K immediatly because the loser would've gone away, it was very good from partner to take A immediately and continue destroying all communications, and I found a way in the end to make 2 tricks by letting declarer overruff.

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