Honours for Opponent
I would not have written this post with the exception that the partner who is mentioned in 'Honours for Partner' was also my partner for this hand, and he very happily pointed out opponent's hand to me after the session was over.
On this particular hand, in 3rd seat, I decided to preempt 2H with 13 points because my partner had passed and 3/13 of my points was the singleton K of Clubs. My LHO passed, my partner passed, and my RHO decided to make a takeout double. My LHO stared at her cards, and asked my partner, 'What happens if I pass. Will you pass too?' My partner decided to be nice and said, 'That's probably a takeout double, but I can choose not to pass it.' So the LHO bid 2NT. Partner passes, RHO bids 3D. I pass, RHO stares at her cards again, and bids 3NT.
At that point of time I was thinking 'Thank goodness I didn't open. The opps obviously have game points and we are vulnerable. Now declarer will hopefully finesse my partner for all the honours I supposedly don't have thanks to my preempt.'
Then my RHO bids 4D! I looked at my Q10x diamonds, and was like 'good good finesse wrong side for the Q!' My RHO was probably thinking, 'What? Take me out of my game? Then I put you in YOURS!' when she bid 5D (Goodness knows. I'd probably be thinking the same thing too.) My partner then stares at his hand for a really really long time before pulling out the double.
I led the singleton KC, because I didn't want to lead from the KJxxxx hearts, lead the Ace spade or underlead it, and I obviously couldn't lead diamonds. Dummy comes down with the singleton K diamond, AQ10xxx hearts, xxx clubs and Jxxx spades. (Hee hee so much for 2HXC. But apparently someone made 2H in the traveller hmmmmm...) Declarer won the KC with his Ace, and proceeded to play a small diamond towards the K on the table. I played small, and my partner won with the Ace. He then returned me a club, on which declarer played the Q and I ruffed with the 10 of diamonds. Since the contract was already down (master trump in my hand), I played the largest of my heart non-honours, hoping partner could ruff. Declarer played the Ace from table, and discarded something which eludes me from his hand (probably spade). He then played a small heart from table on which my partner discards something that I also cannot remember (haha so much for paying attention to discards), and declarer ruffs and wins. He then plays a small spade out to the table. Having absolutely no clue what was going on, I won it with the Ace and played the K of hearts. Partner discards, declarer ruffs, and plays back a spade, which my partner wins with the K.
Yes, there are probably a million and 1 play mistakes by me here. This usually happensbecause I suck at bridge when I have no idea what is going on. At that point in time I was seriously wondering where all the declarer's points were, with him repeating his diamonds 2x and not being able to ruff anything other than hearts. Maybe I should have been wondering why he didn't draw more than 1 round of trumps. (I wish my partner did though heehee.)
After coming in with the K of spades, my partner started cashing his club winners, with me discarding first a spade and then hearts. Finally, when declarer's club was larger than his, I decided not to ruff because mine was the master trump after all. I'm not sure what the declarer was thinking, but when he tried to cash another club, my partner ruffed with the 9 of diamonds. Then totally, utterly, confused, he played the Jack of diamonds, and was shocked by it clashing with my Queen of diamonds. Heehee. So instead of 1400 which we would have gotten if he had played a spade instead, we got 1100, which I have no complaints about *gigglez*.
So after the session was over, my partner said that it didn't occur to him that I wasn't ruffing because I held the master trump in my hand. Because he held AJ9 of trumps, and since the K was on table, and I had shown up with the 10 already, declarer couldn't possibly have rebidded his diamonds 2x holding 8 as his highest diamond card. He then proudly proclaimed that despite his lack of honours in suits introduced at ridiculously high levels/preempted, he always has at least the 9.
I bet that declarer wished he had me as his partner, with honours of partner's bid suit always spawning in my hand. However, it is possible that you need at least the 9 in your bid suit for that to occur >.<.
On this particular hand, in 3rd seat, I decided to preempt 2H with 13 points because my partner had passed and 3/13 of my points was the singleton K of Clubs. My LHO passed, my partner passed, and my RHO decided to make a takeout double. My LHO stared at her cards, and asked my partner, 'What happens if I pass. Will you pass too?' My partner decided to be nice and said, 'That's probably a takeout double, but I can choose not to pass it.' So the LHO bid 2NT. Partner passes, RHO bids 3D. I pass, RHO stares at her cards again, and bids 3NT.
At that point of time I was thinking 'Thank goodness I didn't open. The opps obviously have game points and we are vulnerable. Now declarer will hopefully finesse my partner for all the honours I supposedly don't have thanks to my preempt.'
Then my RHO bids 4D! I looked at my Q10x diamonds, and was like 'good good finesse wrong side for the Q!' My RHO was probably thinking, 'What? Take me out of my game? Then I put you in YOURS!' when she bid 5D (Goodness knows. I'd probably be thinking the same thing too.) My partner then stares at his hand for a really really long time before pulling out the double.
I led the singleton KC, because I didn't want to lead from the KJxxxx hearts, lead the Ace spade or underlead it, and I obviously couldn't lead diamonds. Dummy comes down with the singleton K diamond, AQ10xxx hearts, xxx clubs and Jxxx spades. (Hee hee so much for 2HXC. But apparently someone made 2H in the traveller hmmmmm...) Declarer won the KC with his Ace, and proceeded to play a small diamond towards the K on the table. I played small, and my partner won with the Ace. He then returned me a club, on which declarer played the Q and I ruffed with the 10 of diamonds. Since the contract was already down (master trump in my hand), I played the largest of my heart non-honours, hoping partner could ruff. Declarer played the Ace from table, and discarded something which eludes me from his hand (probably spade). He then played a small heart from table on which my partner discards something that I also cannot remember (haha so much for paying attention to discards), and declarer ruffs and wins. He then plays a small spade out to the table. Having absolutely no clue what was going on, I won it with the Ace and played the K of hearts. Partner discards, declarer ruffs, and plays back a spade, which my partner wins with the K.
Yes, there are probably a million and 1 play mistakes by me here. This usually happens
After coming in with the K of spades, my partner started cashing his club winners, with me discarding first a spade and then hearts. Finally, when declarer's club was larger than his, I decided not to ruff because mine was the master trump after all. I'm not sure what the declarer was thinking, but when he tried to cash another club, my partner ruffed with the 9 of diamonds. Then totally, utterly, confused, he played the Jack of diamonds, and was shocked by it clashing with my Queen of diamonds. Heehee. So instead of 1400 which we would have gotten if he had played a spade instead, we got 1100, which I have no complaints about *gigglez*.
So after the session was over, my partner said that it didn't occur to him that I wasn't ruffing because I held the master trump in my hand. Because he held AJ9 of trumps, and since the K was on table, and I had shown up with the 10 already, declarer couldn't possibly have rebidded his diamonds 2x holding 8 as his highest diamond card. He then proudly proclaimed that despite his lack of honours in suits introduced at ridiculously high levels/preempted, he always has at least the 9.
I bet that declarer wished he had me as his partner, with honours of partner's bid suit always spawning in my hand. However, it is possible that you need at least the 9 in your bid suit for that to occur >.<.
posted by Shelly at 1:04 PM
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