San Francisco Day 1
Today I played in the BCD pairs with Kevin. We came in 3rd overall. I was somewhat apprehensive about doing BCD because I haven’t in so long, but the field was competent and fun.
In the first session I played N. We were doing pretty well but had had to weather a couple of bottoms. The last round was pretty wild.
Board 25, EW Vul, N deal
K96432
42
T86
J5
You open an aggressive 2 ♠ and are bemused by the following auction:
2 ♠ X 3 d 3 ♡
P P 5 ♣ P
5d 5 ♡ P P
P
Partner had
-
8
K97532
T87642
They made 7 easily when I didn’t lead a diamond. I thought we did a good job of applying pressure. Never mind that we can only make 1♢.
Board 27, No one Vul, S deal
1 ♣ 1 ♡
1 ♠ 2 ♡ 3 ♣ P
3 ♡ 4 ♡ 5 ♣ X
?
I held an amazing hand
AKT76
7
AT98
K65
With this prime hand, I had planned to bid 6c until the X came down. Then, my choice was to pass. I should have rewound it or bid 6c, but I hadn’t played with Kevin in years and wasn’t totally confident his hand was good as I suspected. Well, we made 7♣ for +750, less than +940, less than +1150, less than +800 (5h X down 4). P had
85
AJ
54
AQT9874
Even the diamond lead does not hold us to 6, as the clubs split 2-1 and the spades 3-3; the AQ of clubs may be cashed, set up a spade, and use the club K as an entry to dummy. I think in A/X this result would have been sub-par for sure.