Had a fun 20 boards with Peter tonight.  Here are my most favorite and least favorite boards:

T / AQJ96 / KT4 / A532

 

First, favorable.

 

You open 1 Heart.  Pard bids 1 Spade.  You bid 2 Clubs.  Pard bids 2 Diamonds (4SF.)  You bid 2NT.  Pard now bids 4 Clubs.

 

Qu'est-ce que c'est que ca?

 

Is this Gerber?  Why didn't pard set trumps at the 3 level?  Is this some slam invite in Clubs (afraid for some reason that I would pass 3 Clubs)?

 

Unfortunately, this was Speedball (I LOATHE speedball, btw) and I had to do something.  I just couldn't bring myself to bid 4 Spades with a stiff and waffled with 4 Hearts.

 

Peter bid 6NT and LHO led the 3 of Spades

K976 / K54 / A7 / KQJ8

 

T / AQJ96 / KT4 / A532

Did I mention this was an IMP Pairs tournament?  Ugh.  Peter later mentioned that he assumed we were playing kickback (he intended 4 Clubs as keycard (we'd agreed 1430) for Clubs.)  Even if I have 3 bullets, it seems like 6 Clubs is where we want to be.  Oh well.  Surprisingly, LHO had not underled his Ace of Spades and I finished 2 in the glue.

http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=4341110&when_played=1188180000

7 / AJ / AK42 / AKJ954

4th all white

Pard opens 1 Diamond, 3 Hearts on your Right.

I'd had enough keycard disasters for one evening.  Regular readers of my blog might guess that I chose to bid ...

7 Diamonds.

The hands fit well.

7 / AJ / AK42 / AKJ954

AK95 / - / QJ853 / 8762

+1440 was worth 10.48 IMPs (just enough to offset the 10.36 IMPs we lost on the 1st board.)

http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=4341537&when_played=1188180000