My mom asked me to play bridge with her this afternoon in our local club game. Playing with her is always an adventure. If the cards cooperate, we can have a really good game. The problem is that my mom plays a really incomplete convention card. So when those funky hands come up, there's often no bid. Our card is basically SAYC only not SA -- 2/1, and the only real conventions we agreed on were Jacoby 2N, weak jump shifts, and Cappelletti. Everything else was super basic.
All problems matchpoints, table results in the comments:
1. Favorable, 4th seat, you hold:
A65 8 AJ8743 AKQ
(P) P (P) 1D
(P) 2H (P) ?
2. Favorable, 4th seat again:
AKT96 76 K83 872
(1H) 2C (2D) ?
2a. Let's assume that no matter what you bid, the auction continues
(3H) 4C (4D) ?
How high do you plan to compete, and what, if anything, will you double?
3. Unfavorable, 2nd seat:
KJ4 5 QJ76 K6543
(P) P (P) 1C
(P) 1D (P) 1H
(P) ?
Do you agree with 1D here? Remember, no inverted minors or carnage raises or anything fun like that.
4. All white, 2nd seat:
K863 J64 KJT98 A
(1C) X (2C) X
(P) 2D (P) 2H
(3C) ?
Mom doesn't really know responsive doubles, so the X after 2C is open to interpretation. What do you think pard has shown you, and where do you go from here?
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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1. We'd agreed on weak jump shifts, but we hadn't discussed what the expected range should be. If pard has a good heart suit, this might well make 3N. Since Mom's not a junior, I was worried she'd be on the strong side for her bid, but I decided to trust her to have a truly weak hand and I decided on 3D. This got checked out and dummy came down with:
Jxxx Jxxxxx x xx
I actually think I'd bid 1H with Mom's hand, given her spade situation. No matter, my +130 was a top against the others who tried 2 and 3 NT over pard's heart bid.
2. I didn't know how Mom would take X here, and I also wasn't sure if 2D on my right was intended as a game force or not. Their card said 2/1 but I didn't want to clue them in by asking about interference. I assumed that they would compete higher than us, so I'd conceal my spades for now and just show a fit with pard. I bid 3C, and the auction proceeded as described.
2a. Over 4D, I bid 4S. I don't know if it's right to compete so much when they've yet to agree on a fit at the 4 level, but I wanted this hand, and didn't want to have to compete to 5C if pard could pass 4S. Lefty doubled with authority, and Mom wasted no time in pulling out 5C. I was shocked to see this get checked around. I was sure it was down when lefty showed out on the Diamond Ace lead, but when the next trick went Q - K - HEART, I thought it was pretty nice of them to give us a gift like this. But it was no gift -- lefty is 5-8-0-0. Mom had to lose one trump trick, but no more, and 5C was a top when other tables were in 4H making and 5H down one. I sort of doubt the bidding was the same anywhere else.
3. Over 1H, I bid 2N. 3C might be the "right" call, but I wanted the lead coming to my hand, and I think some level of NT is where this hand belongs anyway. Mom lifted to 3 with an okay 14-count, and I found an extra trick to make 4, which did not earn all the matchpoints I thought I deserved, because an opponent at another table was kind enough to revoke. Don't you hate it when that happens?
4. Mom held this hand. I think it's about 50/50 to overcall 1D or X, and I have no beef with her choice here, but she didn't think about what I was showing at all, and chose to pass 3C, and pass again when I bid 3D. Before I put the dummy down, she said "You have 4 spades, don't you?" 3D making 4 was a bad board opposite all the 3S making 3 contracts at the other tables. My hand here was:
QJT9 KQ92 432 87
Maybe a little light for my own X, but it felt right. And I think I have to bid 3D when 3C gets passed around to me. Feel free to disagree with me here.
1. Pass
Playing partner for QJ10xxx and out or some other less-than-6HCP hand.
2. 2s
2a. Double to let partner know i have something, if he doesn't double 4h then I will bid 5c.
3. Disagree, would bid 3c, would bid 3c at second chance
4. Pass
With 3451 I'd probably bid 3h, so partner should basically know what I have at this point. Surely she knows my hand better than I know hers.
1. Pard should be worse than a normal weak two in hearts, maybe KJTxxx and out. This is probably our last chance to go plus. Pass.
2a. Well, a Snapdragon double would certainly be best here, but I'm sure you're not playing them... so I'll overbid with 2S.
2b. Now that I have my lead-director in, I raise to 5C and pop anything higher.
3. I would have bid an invitational 3C on the first round... I don't want partner to correct on 3433. In this position, though, I'd probably rightside and bid 2N.
4. Pard's either 4-4 in the majors, or has a club stack. I'm fairly min for my actions so far, so I'll pass and pass pard's double of 3C. If she pulls to 3d or 3H, I'll bid 3S.
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