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Stray Team Deals
I have hand records for a lot of events, so I'll just crack out the stray team deals now. But first, an anecdote:
Playing against a couple with a bridge column, with a ton of defensive carding agreements, I asked what their agreement was when splitting honors on a lead off dummy, and how they played Smith Echo (it wasn't obvious, since they play reverse smith by one partner and "standard" by the other). I was treated to an outburst about how "you" (not "me" but men in general) have all kinds of blah blah, but she just plays cards, and she's "just sick of this" and then her partner piped in that he's probably only needed to smith twice, ever. That's fine, but it seems pretty weird to keep two versions of smith on your card when you don't even play one.
One of them accused me of not having a sense of humor (I don't think it was mean spirited, and might have been a joke, though I don't know how I would be expected to get it, lacking a sense of humor). When I admitted I have no sense of humor, blaming my religion, they gave me a Moshiach wallet card ( http://www.sos-israel.com ). Oooooookay...
The next day I asked what the card says, since I'm not fluent in Hebrew, and they just walked away (perhaps to compare with their teammates, and urge I understand).
Wacky.
26) 1st, both
Txx AJT9x Q9xx x
P-1N-X-2C, X-2H-P-2S, X-P-P-P
1N was weak. Double of 1N was penalty. Double of 2C was takeout.
Pard had Axx xxx KJ KQJxx.
-670 didn't score as well as I'd hoped. I felt that pard didn't have a penalty double of 1N when he couldn't set 3N. We (I) could have set it a trick, and that would have been better.
These particular opponents were SO pleased with themselves, not just because of that board, and kept congratulating each other. Then came:
33) 2nd, none
9xx AJ9x xxx Jxx
They bid 1D-1S, 1N-3N, P
I went passive and, when in with CJ, looking at HTx in dummy, decided I only needed pard to have HKxxx to set the contract. In fact, declarer won the HQ and, when pard got in, I scored three more heart tricks to set the contract. Declarer informed his partner he had had no chance to make. I suggest that, perhaps, HT from dummy on the first heart lead might have been a bit luckier.
18) 2nd, unfavorable
Tx Kx AKxx JT98x
P-P-2H-X, P-3N-P-P, X-P-P-P
+1350. Neat. I don't know what else to say, except that we won the ko match on this, fairly random, board.
11) 2nd, none
KJx KJxx Qxx Q98
This is, by far, my favorite board of the tournament, +1350's excepted.
P-P-1S-X, P-1N-P-P, P
I didn't do the calculation in my head, but I figured the Kaplan and Rubens hand evaluator would give this hand about 10 points (it turns out I was optimistic, it's only worth 9.65). Still, I wavered when dummy tabled a healthy 14 HCP hand. Oops, playing at the ONE LEVEL, at IMPs, with 26 HCP and all suits stopped (and a 4-4 heart fit...)!
I made +150 but they can always hold me to eight tricks, and 4H is down off the top.
To be fair, at the other table I opened, so LHO didn't open 1S, so it wasn't quite so obvious how lousy 4H is when pard has Tx AQxx AKx Jxxx.
Playing against a couple with a bridge column, with a ton of defensive carding agreements, I asked what their agreement was when splitting honors on a lead off dummy, and how they played Smith Echo (it wasn't obvious, since they play reverse smith by one partner and "standard" by the other). I was treated to an outburst about how "you" (not "me" but men in general) have all kinds of blah blah, but she just plays cards, and she's "just sick of this" and then her partner piped in that he's probably only needed to smith twice, ever. That's fine, but it seems pretty weird to keep two versions of smith on your card when you don't even play one.
One of them accused me of not having a sense of humor (I don't think it was mean spirited, and might have been a joke, though I don't know how I would be expected to get it, lacking a sense of humor). When I admitted I have no sense of humor, blaming my religion, they gave me a Moshiach wallet card ( http://www.sos-israel.com ). Oooooookay...
The next day I asked what the card says, since I'm not fluent in Hebrew, and they just walked away (perhaps to compare with their teammates, and urge I understand).
Wacky.
26) 1st, both
Txx AJT9x Q9xx x
P-1N-X-2C, X-2H-P-2S, X-P-P-P
1N was weak. Double of 1N was penalty. Double of 2C was takeout.
Pard had Axx xxx KJ KQJxx.
-670 didn't score as well as I'd hoped. I felt that pard didn't have a penalty double of 1N when he couldn't set 3N. We (I) could have set it a trick, and that would have been better.
These particular opponents were SO pleased with themselves, not just because of that board, and kept congratulating each other. Then came:
33) 2nd, none
9xx AJ9x xxx Jxx
They bid 1D-1S, 1N-3N, P
I went passive and, when in with CJ, looking at HTx in dummy, decided I only needed pard to have HKxxx to set the contract. In fact, declarer won the HQ and, when pard got in, I scored three more heart tricks to set the contract. Declarer informed his partner he had had no chance to make. I suggest that, perhaps, HT from dummy on the first heart lead might have been a bit luckier.
18) 2nd, unfavorable
Tx Kx AKxx JT98x
P-P-2H-X, P-3N-P-P, X-P-P-P
+1350. Neat. I don't know what else to say, except that we won the ko match on this, fairly random, board.
11) 2nd, none
KJx KJxx Qxx Q98
This is, by far, my favorite board of the tournament, +1350's excepted.
P-P-1S-X, P-1N-P-P, P
I didn't do the calculation in my head, but I figured the Kaplan and Rubens hand evaluator would give this hand about 10 points (it turns out I was optimistic, it's only worth 9.65). Still, I wavered when dummy tabled a healthy 14 HCP hand. Oops, playing at the ONE LEVEL, at IMPs, with 26 HCP and all suits stopped (and a 4-4 heart fit...)!
I made +150 but they can always hold me to eight tricks, and 4H is down off the top.
To be fair, at the other table I opened, so LHO didn't open 1S, so it wasn't quite so obvious how lousy 4H is when pard has Tx AQxx AKx Jxxx.