[Fluffy]

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East is dealer, nobody vulnerable.

Table 1:

East-South-West-North
pass-pass- 2 ♠ -pass
pass- 2NT-pass- 3♥
pass- 3NT-pass-pass
pass


Table 2:

East-South-West-North
pass-pass- 3 ♠ -4♥
pass-pass-pass-



At the table 1, south played 3NT after showing minors over the weak 2, and not willing to let partner play 3♥, tried a thing game.

♠K was led, taken, now declarer tried to stablish hearts playing low to 10, expeting to endplay east on his way to dummy later.

East won ♥Q and escaped with low diamond. Declarer though east would never escape underleading ♦AQ, and now his best hope was to catch stiff ♦Q to save some undertricks, so he tried the King. Not a success, he also made the mistake of pitching a club on the run of the spades and defence then made 3 club tricks after west crossed the suit. He was held to 2 tricks and 7 downs.


At the table 2, north was (very) agressive and became declarer in 4♥, received the ♠6 lead to the ace, king and 2, and played a heart to the ♥10 captured by ♥Q. East switched to low diamond, declarer guessing to play low and ♦A won. Now west, eager to get his his diamond ruff setting the contract, played ♠3 to force partner to ruff this trick. Partner ruffed, but took ♠3 a suit preference for clubs, and switched to ♣10. Declarer won ♣Q.

This only set 9 tricks to declarer, but after drawing trumps, declarer ruffed a club in hand to eliminate west's clubs, then squeezed east in the minors for the 10th trick.


So we made 2 tricks in one table, 10 by the opponents in the other *8 trick difference). Adding 350 to 420 for a way to lose 13 IMPs that you probably haven't seen before.

Bonus question: wich of the players was me?

[gwnn]

North at table 1.

[Hanoi5]

West at the 2nd table.

[Yu18772]

South table1?

[whereagles]

wow.. ridiculous bidding at both tables so I guess you're East at one of them

[ggwhiz]

Too long ago to remember the hand but I once bid and made 6♣ on bizarre defence and bidding (by me) when they underled an Ace at trick one. The other table was down 1 in 4♣ on equally bizarre play.

Maybe not the hall of shame but it wouldn't take long for roll call.

[aguahombre]

whereagles, on 2011-November-13, 03:08, said:

wow.. ridiculous bidding at both tables so I guess you're East at one of them

If OP was East, it was at table 2 because of the detail in the OP.

North at #1 would also be favorable to Fluffy.

The only other two possibilities: West at #2 and South at #1 made unenviable choices which we all have made before and might have worked out better with a different layout.

"We all" was a tweak, Stephanie. Let this one slide

[Fluffy]

north at T1 was my father, I was the west at T2.