Last night's set with Peter was decent with the exception of one board.  But the bad board was a doozy.  Here it is:

All red, 3rd, IMP pairs.

Q54 / QJ97 / J732 / 74

Peter opened 1 Club and raised my 1 Heart response to 3.  Even Red at IMPs I didn't have anything to thing about.  We'd arrived.

Lefty led the 2 of Spades.

J / T652 / AQT / AKJ95

Q54 / QJ97 / J732 / 74

RHO won the King and fired back a trump.  LHO won the Ace and switched to a low Club.

- / T65 / AQT / AKJ95

Q4 / QJ9 / J732 / 74

I played the Ace King of Clubs and LHO produced the Queen on the 2nd round.

At this point, there's almost no way to go down on the hand, but I managed to defy the oddsmakers.

I played a trump to the Queen and King and LHO exited with the Ace of Spades, which I ruffed in Dummy.

- / T / AQT / J95

Q / J9 / J732 / -

Now it's a simple matter of ruffing a Club (making the Clubs good,) drawing the last trump and running the Jack of Diamonds for an uptrick.  Unfortunately the magical combination of beer night (Friday is beer night in the Ferguson household) Lotro fatigue and possession of the beer card conspired to rob me of my mental faculties and I failed to appreciate that the Queen of Spades was good. 

I cashed the Ten of Hearts, cashed the Jack of Clubs, discarding my spade 'loser' and here I stood:

- / - / AQT / 95

- / J / J732 / -

I still make 4 if I infer from the early failures to switch to a Diamond that LHO must have the Diamond King.  But I didn't butcher the hand so completely earlier so I could get it right at this point.  Instead of ruffing a Club and running the Diamond Jack, I played Diamonds from the top and lost the last trick when my beer card fell to LHO's 9 (from an original holding of K9xx.)

-50 was lose 6 and a section 4th.  +170 would have been win a half and a section 2nd.

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