The pendulum – Summer National Pairs – Session 3

I found myself in 2D against the lead of HQ and it was not looking good. I had one spade loser, one or two heart losers, one or 2 diamond losers, and there was only one entry in dummy, so there was a clear risk of losing 3 club tricks.

I won the heart lead, played back a spade. Won the heart return and exited a heart. 3-3 break was a relief.

The defence now erred by playing ace and another club, and all I needed now was to guess the diamonds, which I managed successfully – though Ajay gave me maximum chances to go wrong by not playing the king 2nd time round.

It looked like this will be a good score, there’s nothing we can make. And opponents have a club partial their way.

But.. what I had not considered was that all precision players opened 1♦ with west hand. That shut out the diamond overcall. Then they played in 1NT and went 1 down. So a lot of NS were scoring 100 vs our 90.

42%.. oh well