Looks at the board in board two for a second “3NT doesn’t make, but 4H does.” My word that was quick! I was still trying to read what the Cade’s were. Reminds me of Hikaru Nakamura doing puzzle rush (obscure chess reference).
On board 1, in retrospect, not being results oriented, is 4S the better bid? I was thinking 3NT because of the flat distribution and stoppers, but I can see the concern for the stopper being knocked out, but 3NT seemed better to me.
I got lucky on this week with compression where I made a terrible play forgetting a card and got 0% on a board, but it was on board 1 where I was heading for that same 28% without the forget, and then the rest of the set was good/lucky. Several interesting decisions. Board 1: Same auction. On the opening lead I had the same reasoning about not wanting to finesse so I played the DA, but then after pulling trump had a black out and forgot the DK was still out so I unblocked my DQ before trying to run clubs and as a result made only 10 tricks for +420 and 0%. Board 2: I thought my 4333 hand (especially because I thought I could likely run 5 tricks in spades with AKx opposite partner) would play better in 3NT so I passed the 3NT and made +600 for 96.4%. Board 3: Over the 1S-1NT-2C-2S I bid 3H which GIB defines as 4+C, 3H, 5+S and 17-18 total points with a partial stop in H, which describes that hand very well. That caught partner with a raise to 4H, and there were 11 tricks for +450 and 89.3%. Board 4: Same auction but I won the HA and tried to immediately sneak a diamond by to either score the DK if E ducks A or setup the K for a hopeful H pitch if E rises DA. But when W had DA now I'm down 1 -100 for 50%. Board 5: Same all around with 3HX-3 for 500. I did think about overtaking in spades but I wasn't positive partner had the club A and did want partner to be able to take out trumps so didn't overtake. +500 is 53.6%. Board 6: Same exactly for +420 and 85.7%. Board 7: I thought about upgrade, but decided on 1C but then bid 1NT over the X by S and bought it there and was able to make 7 tricks for +90 and 42.9%. Board 8: I made the heavy balance of 1NT with the 15 count, but when partner transferred me to hearts I super accepted with 3H and played it there. W opened with the heart lead which found the Q for me and let me pull trump. I played DA and another which W won and W then switched to the club into my AQ setting me up for 10 tricks and +170 for 89.3%. So overall 63.4% for rank 2 which was a good end to a set that started with a real idiotic play on board 1.
As my comment above, that is what I choose on that board. I liked it both because GIB described my hand exactly by that call and because I felt I was too strong to die in 2S but was worried about diamonds stopped for our most likely 3NT game. Was a bonus when partner raised to the making heart game.
After board 7 at 29:30 you asked whether you can make 2 hearts where hearts split 5-1. Double dummy no. But the defense is not trivial and gave you a chance. When the heart jack drops on the trump ace, you should have overtaken your heart 9 with the ten in dummy to play clubs from the table. Now the defense is helpless. You always get now a crucial discard of a diamond loser on the clubs. To defeat 2 hearts West has to give up control of the hearts and win the second heart immediately, get his spade ruff and then switch to diamonds. This is a very tough defense.
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Looks at the board in board two for a second “3NT doesn’t make, but 4H does.” My word that was quick! I was still trying to read what the Cade’s were. Reminds me of Hikaru Nakamura doing puzzle rush (obscure chess reference).
'Until you ruff them, count them as losers' Great advice for suit contracts planning
On board 1, in retrospect, not being results oriented, is 4S the better bid? I was thinking 3NT because of the flat distribution and stoppers, but I can see the concern for the stopper being knocked out, but 3NT seemed better to me.
I got lucky on this week with compression where I made a terrible play forgetting a card and got 0% on a board, but it was on board 1 where I was heading for that same 28% without the forget, and then the rest of the set was good/lucky. Several interesting decisions.
Board 1: Same auction. On the opening lead I had the same reasoning about not wanting to finesse so I played the DA, but then after pulling trump had a black out and forgot the DK was still out so I unblocked my DQ before trying to run clubs and as a result made only 10 tricks for +420 and 0%.
Board 2: I thought my 4333 hand (especially because I thought I could likely run 5 tricks in spades with AKx opposite partner) would play better in 3NT so I passed the 3NT and made +600 for 96.4%.
Board 3: Over the 1S-1NT-2C-2S I bid 3H which GIB defines as 4+C, 3H, 5+S and 17-18 total points with a partial stop in H, which describes that hand very well. That caught partner with a raise to 4H, and there were 11 tricks for +450 and 89.3%.
Board 4: Same auction but I won the HA and tried to immediately sneak a diamond by to either score the DK if E ducks A or setup the K for a hopeful H pitch if E rises DA. But when W had DA now I'm down 1 -100 for 50%.
Board 5: Same all around with 3HX-3 for 500. I did think about overtaking in spades but I wasn't positive partner had the club A and did want partner to be able to take out trumps so didn't overtake. +500 is 53.6%.
Board 6: Same exactly for +420 and 85.7%.
Board 7: I thought about upgrade, but decided on 1C but then bid 1NT over the X by S and bought it there and was able to make 7 tricks for +90 and 42.9%.
Board 8: I made the heavy balance of 1NT with the 15 count, but when partner transferred me to hearts I super accepted with 3H and played it there. W opened with the heart lead which found the Q for me and let me pull trump. I played DA and another which W won and W then switched to the club into my AQ setting me up for 10 tricks and +170 for 89.3%.
So overall 63.4% for rank 2 which was a good end to a set that started with a real idiotic play on board 1.
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On board 3, what do you think of 3H vs 2NT if you choose to bid over 2S?
As my comment above, that is what I choose on that board. I liked it both because GIB described my hand exactly by that call and because I felt I was too strong to die in 2S but was worried about diamonds stopped for our most likely 3NT game. Was a bonus when partner raised to the making heart game.
After board 7 at 29:30 you asked whether you can make 2 hearts where hearts split 5-1. Double dummy no. But the defense is not trivial and gave you a chance. When the heart jack drops on the trump ace, you should have overtaken your heart 9 with the ten in dummy to play clubs from the table. Now the defense is helpless. You always get now a crucial discard of a diamond loser on the clubs.
To defeat 2 hearts West has to give up control of the hearts and win the second heart immediately, get his spade ruff and then switch to diamonds. This is a very tough defense.
Really tough set, I thought.