Jimmy Sez #16
Sometimes you play with someone that you haven’t played with for a long time and you run into hands that become very difficult with bidding interference. The following is one that falls into this category.
S- J 10 9 7
H- 6
D- A Q 7 6 5 3 2
S- Q 5 4 C- 5 S- 3
H- K Q 9 8 H- J 10 5 3 2
D- J 8 D- K 10 9
C- K J 10 7 S- A K 8 6 2 C- 9 8 6 3
H- A 9 4
D - 4
C – A Q 4 2
S W N E
1S Dbl 4S 5H
Dbl Pass 5S Pass
6S Pass Pass Pass
When partner pulled me from my double, I reasoned he had either five or more spades to the queen and a void or some reason to believe there was more in the hand. With the two outside aces it looked as if a small slam would be easy. When dummy came down I was a little disappointed. It looked as if I needed the diamond king to be onside with a good diamond break. On closer examination I realized the only real loser I had was the spade queen provided spades broke no worse than 3-1 and diamonds broke no worse than 3-2. I had all of the high trumps except that queen. Since I didn’t have enough trump to set up diamonds and use them for discards I had to concede the trump queen. I took the opening lead with the heart ace and led a diamond to dummy’s ace and ruffed a diamond. I now led a spade toward dummy’s jack. When West took the queen he led his heart queen putting me in dummy. I now trumped the last diamond with the trump ace. I cashed the trump king and led to the spade Jack and discarded the remaining losers on the good diamonds.
Rule: If you cannot trump all of your losers you must set up a suit for discards.