Just finished a brutal 12 board set with Jeff.  I had 4 bad boards, none of them particularly costly, but I've never been one to result.  Egregious mistakes make my skin crawl.

The first two were bidding:

KJT762 / Q / 85 / AJ87

All white, pard opens 1 Heart, you bid 1 Spade, he bids 2 Diamonds to you.

I chickened out and bid 2 Spades.  Probably my least egregious error of the 4, but I think you've got to invite here.  Yes, it's easy to construct lots of hands where 2 Spades is enough, but it's also easy to construct lots of hands like the one pard actually held:

Q / AJT73 / AT742 / K3

I underplayed and only made 3, but surely you want to be in game on these cards.

NEXT

AT3 / K2 / Q76 / AT942

I opened 1 Club, Jeff bid 1 Diamond, Righty bid 2 Hearts, I passed, Lefty passed, Jeff bid 3 Spades, to me.

I thought about the Moyse for a bit, but I thought Jeff would bypass Diamonds with most good 4 card spade suits and that 4 Spades was unilateral.  I bid 3NT.

Jeff never used to bid up the line, he'd always bypass any 6 card minor to bid just about any 4 card major regardless of strength.  That knowledge helped me misevaluate this one (on the auction he should have what he actually did have.)  Jeff was 5-6 in the pointed suits and 3NT had no play, while 4 Spades was icy.

His hand:

KQJ87 / 4 / AT8432 / 5

The final hand I'll blog tonight was partially bidding and partially defense:

A8 / KQ5 / QJ2 / KQ984

Jeff opened 1 Diamond, I bid 2 Clubs, Jeff bid 2 Spades, I bid 2NT (planning to make the mild overbid of 4NT over 3NT) and Lefty came in with 3 Hearts (he was white, we were red) passed around to me.

Of course I considered bidding 3NT anyway, but if this guy is relying on law protection and we're gin for 11 tricks in NT, surely he's going for at least 500, 800 is likely, and 1100 is possible.  I whipped it.

Jeff led the Diamond Ace and dummy tracked:

K9653 / 98 / 8765 / 62

I played the Queen, promising the Jack (or singleton) and Jeff continued a low Diamond after some thought.  Declarer ruffed, and ducked a club to me.

I played a low heart, declarer won the Ace, and played Ace and a club, ruffing.  So far, not so good.  Declarer ruffed a diamond, and exited a heart to Jeff's Jack and my Queen.  Doh.

So in the 5 card ending I held:

A8 / K / - / K9

And declarer is marked with

K965 / - / 8 / - (dummy)

??? / T7 / - / -

But instead of playing the King of trumps and exiting a club, I decided to play a good club, tapping declarer.  When Declarer gave me another chance (he could have endplayed me in Hearts at that point) and threw me in with my Ace of Spades, I tapped declarer again with a club (instead of drawing his last trump and preserving the last 3 tricks for the defense (Jeff had the spade Queen, as you'd expect from the auction.)

If I'm not going to count, I shouldn't bother to play.  Maybe there's a Bingo parlor around with an empty seat.