| The first Wessex League match of the season, part 1 |
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The B Team played their first match this week, away to Bicester. This hand did not bring in many points from my point of veiw! I'm West in 4♥ and get a diamond lead. On causual analysis I can see 4 posible losers, 3 spades and the club king. Blinded by this fear, I decided I needed to ruff my losing spades. I won the ace of diamonds in dummy and took the oportunity to take the club finese which was wrong of course. North returned a second diamond which I ruffed in hand lead a spade to the ace and gave gave up a spade, North winning again. A third diamond and now I'm in real trouble ending up 2 off for -200. How would you have played it? |
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Looking at the hand again I can see 2 spades and 1club loser. The 4th club in dummy alows for 1 ♠ discard as long as you maintain an entry. So win the diamond lead in dummy, draw trumps ending in hand and play ace and another club. North will return the ♦J, ruff this in hand. Cash your clubs, J, small to the queen and discard a spade on the ♣10. Ten tricks and happiness!
Luckily the match result was a win of 15 - 5 or I might have been in the doghouse.
(One of our tables bid and made it as did one of the oposition, luckily the oposition also went one off which made the score on the board -3. me making the contract would have been +12 and a match result of 17 - 3) |
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| The first Wessex League match of the season part 2 |
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The club at Bicester does not have the facilities for a dealing machine and its a great shame as the hands were definately not flat and uninteresting. No less than three grands were bid on different boards.
After some thought, I opened this hand 2♣, but I never knew why. How can partner tell me what I want to know, the location of the ♥ & ♣ jacks? If I had been playing pairs I would have bid 7♥ and crossed my fingers. But at teams and with this form of scoring I can't take the risk of going down in a grand when a small slam is almost certain. |
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