Here are another good board and bad board from my 20 board set with Peter.

All Red 4th

QJ7 / K732 / KJ5 / 632

Lefty opens 1 Spade.  Pard bids 2 Clubs - Pass to you.

All Red 1st

Q54 / AK864 / AT8 / A8

1NT or 1 Heart?

If 1 Heart, what's your 3rd bid after uncontested: 1H - 1N - 2N - 3H - ?

 

On the 1st board, I bid 2NT.  The hand feels notrumpy to me and I have two Kings to protect. 

Unfortunately, partner was operating a tad:

85 / JT6 / A4 / QJT987

QJ7 / K732 / KJ5 / 632

 

Not my idea of a 2-level red overcall, but it IS a decent suit, at least. 

 

Lefty whipped 2NT and I chose to sit.  Running to 3 Clubs might have worked better (and at least Peter would have had to play it.)

Defense slipped a trick (not unreasonably) when Lefty started with 3 rounds of Spades, got in with a Club and cashed the other 2 Spades and the Ace of Hearts to ensure down 1 (I still had a 2nd Club to lose.) -500 was lose almost 10 IMPs.  They can get the same +500 if they whip 3 Clubs, but might slip a trick there as well.

LHO

AK932 / AQ5 / 973 / A4

RHO

T64 / 984 / QT862 / K5

Bit of a sketchy double, particularly at IMPs, but hard to argue with success.

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The 2nd board, if you open 1NT, you've arrived, making easily with maybe 1 or 2 uptricks.

I figured my hand was the Ten of Diamonds too strong to open 1NT and it also doesn't have a lot of holdings in need of protection, so that's why I opened 1 Heart.

But after Peter ostensibly signed off in 3 Hearts, I should have bailed.  I continued on to 3NT, a pretty horrendous contract.

Q54 / AK864 / AT8 / A8

A83 / J92 / 76 / JT532

It got a lot better when a Club was led and better still when the Ten (don't ask me why not the Jack) of Clubs won the first trick.

Unfortunately Peter didn't guess the Hearts (he started to and then changed horses) and we were slated for down 1 when the defense mangled the 4 card end position. (Peter had Zip and Pip.  His RHO had KQ9 of Diamonds and the King of Spades.  His LHO had Jx of Diamonds and good Clubs.  Dummy had AT8 of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades.  His RHO led a top Diamond and when Peter threw him in with the Spade King, his partner pitched the Jack of Diamonds.)

+600 was worth close to 11 IMPs.

Peter's LHO

972 / QT5 / J42 / KQ74

Peter's RHO

KJT6 / 73 / KQ953 / 96

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