Happy Canada Day!

The good news is I cancelled my LOTRO account.  The bad news is I've been playing more than ever lately, knowing that when my subscription runs out next month, that's it.  MMO's are fun, but way too addictive for me.

Austin Regional is this week.  Might play a couple of events but mostly looking forward to Vegas in 2 weeks.

Had an interesting set with Mikey against Jeff and Izzy a couple of weeks ago.  Here's an interesting hand from that set.

1st seat all red

A / Q842 / KQ98753 / T

I opened 1 Diamond, the auction proceeded:

1D - Dbl - P - 2D
3D - Dbl - P - 4D
P - 4S - P - 5D
P - 5H - P - 5S
P - 6S - Float

Mikey decided to trust the opps and tried the effect of a Club lead (the 9.)

QT42 / AT53 / 4 / KQ42 Dummy (RHO)

A / Q842 / KQ98753 / T

Izzy won on the board and led the singleton Diamond off dummy.  Think fast, do you split?

In the short time I had to consider my play I didn't see how one Diamond pitch would do Izzy any good (she's presumably got AJ of Clubs and so what good will one Heart pitch from Dummy do her?)  I also was concerned that I was going to get thrown in with my stiff Ace of Spades and have to give up the Diamond trick regardless (I certainly wasn't about to break Hearts for her.)  If she needs an extra Diamond trick to make the contract and has the guts to take the first round finesse, more power to her. I ducked in tempo.  Izzy went into the tank.  Uh oh ...

The Jack of Diamonds hit the table with a thud.  It was followed by the Ace and a Diamond ruff (Mikey pitched a Heart.)  Izzy played the Queen of Spades off dummy and I was in.

T4 / AT5 / - / Q42 Dummy (RHO)

- / Q842 / KQ98 / -

Ugh.  I should have played a Heart at this point just in case by some miracle Mikey started with the King (playing the Queen here doesn't do any good once Mikey pitches a Heart.)  But I made the no-win play of another Diamond (hoping for some vague trump management problem.)  As it turns out it didn't matter, the hand was over as soon as I ducked the Diamond at trick 2.

QT42 / AT53 / 4 / KQ42

KJ87 / K97 / AJ6 / A53

-1430 was lose 12.73 (and we lost the set by an IMP, boo hiss!)

http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/fetchlin.php?id=47033066&when_played=1212155004