St. Mary's Cathedral 4/16

Haha 42% game today.

I haven't gone through the matchpoints, but there were a lot of hands where the opponents played 2M making. I'm curious to see how this scored.

1.
One hand (which I've posted on the BBF), it went 1S - x - 2S to you, you have Kxx xx xxx QT9xx. I just passed here, it got passed out, 2S= was a bad score for us when the traveler came around. Would you bid 3C?

2.
I made a terrible call on this hand. You get dealt Jxx --- AKQJxx T9xx. Partner opens 1S, you bid 2D, partner bids 3C. I bid 3S because it saves room, but that's pretty dumb, since I want to be in clubs. It is matchpoints and all that, but clubs is a far superior contract. We get to 6S, off the AK. The funny thing is that we're off two cashing spades, but 6C is unbeatable because they're blocked. We got there because partner keycarded, I showed one. Turns out he had a diamond void, heh. Partner had Q9xxx AKJ --- AKQJx.

3.
Another bad score here. Unfavorable, you have AKJxxx A Jx Txxx. RHO opens 3H, you bid 3S, LHO bids 4H, partner doubles, all pass. The layout is something like

---------Qx
---------K9xx
---------xxx
---------AQ9x
xx------------------Txx
x-------------------QJTxxxx
AKQxxxx-------------x
Jxx-----------------Kx
---------AKJxxx
---------A
---------Jx
---------T8xx

So we get the obvious 6 tricks to take it for 500, but 4S is making for us. Dunno. By the way, feel free to praise my very fancy hand diagram.

4.
Here's another one. Favorable, you get KJ98 QJ9xx x Jxx. RHO deals.
1D - 1H - 2D - 4H
5D - p - p - x

I led a heart and RHO quickly wrapped it up. It takes a spade lead to beat it 1. I thought about leading a spade at trick 1 but just wimped out... like I said, I'm trying to get better at aggressive leads. We can only ever pick up 1 heart trick at most if partner has the ace, so I should probably start the spade. For a heart to be right, I guess declarer has to have AQ of spades and partner has to have the heart ace. Again, dunno.

5.
I guess I'll end on a high note. Favorable, you open 1N with QJ AJTx Axxx Axx. It goes

1N - p - 2H - x
xx

and at this point you've got a top. We roll 6N, but 2Hxx making 4 is a better score (I had to check.) RHO doubled on KQxxxx, but their side only gets three trump tricks defending 2H. What happened at the table here though, lefty freaked out at the blue card I guess and bid 3C on like Qxxxx and out. We held her to three tricks for 1700.