Stanford 7/29

RHO opens 2H

(2H) p (p) x
(p) 3C

heart spot lead

Jxx JTx ATx AKQx
KQx Kx J8x T98xx

RHO wins the heart ace, leads another heart. Your king holds.

Trumps are 2-2, everyone follows to 3 rounds of spades.

from Ed

You're in 3N on a forgettable auction

A432 AQJ2 T972 4
7 543 AKQ8 AJ762

SJ led

I ducked two spades, won the third. DT to the A, heart finesse losing. They cash the 4th spade (4-4), then the CT shift.

Win, DK underplaying 9, etc etc.

7/6 Home Game

You are in third seat with T87632 K64 52 AJ9

The auction goes

p - p - p - 2D
p - 3N

You lead S6

-------------5
-------------QTx
-------------AKQxxx
-------------Qxx
T87632
K64
52
AJ9
-------------(closed
------------- hand)

First trick goes 6 5 J Q.
DJ 2 Q x
HQ x x K (partner signaling odd)

Now what?

Stanford 5/13

You reach 3N after the auction

1N (14-16) 3S*
3N

*13(54)

They lead S3

6 KJ85 QJ32 AQJ4
AQ7 AT42 A9 T653

11/23 BBO

Playing against robots, I tried to throw declarer in with the trump 4. He underplayed the trump 3 and I was toast. Would've been more spectacular if he had exactly one trump left and had preserved the 3, but he had two trumps left. Still.

Stanford 10/7

1H 1S; 2H 4H

4H, smallest diamond led (4th best)

Txxx Ax Axxx KQx
AKx QJxxxx Kxx x

I'm not sure how many times I'm going to miss this until I get it right.

bridge/horror story

Weinberg: It was a dark night and he could swear he was hearing screams in the forest outside, but as a kibitzer, he had no rights and could say nothing