Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated?
This entry was posted on 7/9/2007 10:26 PM and is filed under The Good.
Had a nice set with Glen tonight against Jeff and John. Mostly we just sat back and let them make a couple of extremely costly mistakes. 20 boards later and we were 40 IMPs (a full blitz in Ottawa IMP League terms) and change to the good.
John was in 6 Hearts with
A64 / KJ742 / A93 / A6 Dummy
K5 / AQT96 / K52 / Q84 Declarer
All white, I passed on his Right and Glen bid 2 Hearts (Michaels) after John opened 1 Heart. Jeff cuebid 2 Spades, John bid game, Jeff bid slam. Glen led the Queen of Spades.
If there were no inferences from the bidding, the hand is straightforward. Draw trumps, play Ace of Clubs and a Club and hope the King is on your Right so that you can pitch a Diamond loser on the Queen and claim. That line is successful.
John won the Spade in hand, drew trumps (Glen showed out on the first trump) and seems to have drawn the inference that with KT9xxx of Clubs I probably would have opened 3 Clubs, so he deliberately took a seemingly very anti-percentage line of throwing Glen in, even though Glen is known to have started with only 2 Clubs (to my 6.) Glen won the 3rd Diamond and cheerfully played a Club to my King. Amazingly, 4 of the 6 other people in slam also went down on the board (many taking a 'Joanie finesse', leading the Queen of Clubs) and there were 3 pairs in 7! (they all went down at least 2) so this board only cost 5 IMPs when it should have easily cleared double digits.
My hand
732 / 85 / Q4 / KT9752
Glen's hand
QJT98 / 3 / JT876 / J3