Still in it

On Vegas day 2, we played a 56 board match against the team from District 7 - Athens, GA. We neglected to come up with any regional insults or REM references, but we did play a pretty good set and came out on top. Most of our big wins were on solid defense against overbidding by our opponents games and bad defense to our overbidding :). We were up 3 at the end of the first quarter, and 34 at the half, but at the end of a bad 3rd set, we were down by ten. We had a really strong 4th quarter to end 71-23 for a final score of 163-125.

We won our last 7 boards 54-6 due to many stolen contracts. On one hand, I overbid a lot and ended up in 4H that's about 12%...until our opponents cashed the ace of diamonds off sides. Win 12. On another hand, we bid to a risky 3NT with Axx opposite xx. They lead the Jack of clubs, and her partner, holding Q9, plays the 9! (encouraging?) Partner holds up of course, and the suit blocks and partner gets the second club stopper he needs to make it.


Lovey and I bid about half of the slams we should have, and some good and bad luck. Take a look at this auction:

AL--JB
1D--1H
1S--2C*
2H--3D
3NT-4C
4D--4NT
5H--6D

Would you have pressed on with Jon's hand?

Kx KTxx KQ8 Axxx

Jon couldn't help himself, and Lovey has:

AQxx xxx ATxxx K

The play is sort of interesting too. The slam is on 3-2 diamond break and a heart hook... ish. She leads her ace of hearts (mini sigh of relief), and continues with the queen of hearts. Lovey takes the king, and plays the king of spades, with lefty dropping the jack. Hmm. Lovey plays to the ace, and she drops the ten. King of clubs, small spade, and she hesitates and ruffs with the 9. Lovey overruffs with the king, plays the queen of diamonds, and contines with 8. Righty follows low, and Lovey tanks to decide who has the jack of diamonds. What inferences would you make from lefty's play so far?

Lovey's amazing table spidey-sense figured that she looked guilty and he played the Ace, dropping the jack and wrapping it up. Lucky us! Plus 1370, win 12.