Big Disappointment

21st April – Board 8. Love All. Dealer West.

I though I was being clever on the featured hand but as happens so often dummy was a big disappointment.

	North: S K 2 H 10 8 5 4 D Q 10 3 C J 10 9 2
West: S Q J 7 5 4 H 6 D 9 8 6 4 C 7 6 4		East: S A 9 6 H K J 7 D K 7 5 2 C A 5 3
	South: S 10 8 3 H A Q 9 3 2 D A J C K Q 8

West	North	East	South
No	No	1D	1H
1S	2H	2S	4H
4S	End

I give the bidding as it happened, not as it necessarily should have gone, and while it is hard to find fault with the opponents’ bidding and certainly not my partner’s, I suppose there are some who might think my action as West was a little over the top. Well I defend myself on the grounds that I could always retreat to diamonds if things got hairy and the lure of the double fit was just too tempting. In my imagination partner had something like

S Axxx H xxx D AKxxx C x when both 4H and 4S would have been easy makes, but even one or two down would have shown a profit if 4H makes. In reality 4H is probably one down although there is a way it can make, as Deep Finesse tells us. 4S was two down and 4 imps away.