Our most talked about board was the first one:
| John | Danny | ||
| W | N | E | S |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3♦ | - | - | 3NT |
| - | 4♥ | - | - |
| - |
John opened the bidding with 3♦, passed round to South who promptly bid 3NT. North corrected to 4♥. I cannot fault the ethics of our opponents as South didn't dither about the 3NT, so North's decision to remove to 4♥ can't be said to be influenced by any uncertainty from his partner.
North has hit the jackpot here though - as parnter has good Heart support and only a single Diamond stop. 3NT was tried at a few tables, and went four off.
Against 4♥ I led my King of Diamonds which declarer took with the Ace, curiously dropping the ♦8 from hand. When he started on trumps I snapped up the Ace, and crossed to my partner's Ace of Clubs. John then underled his ♦QJT9 across to my high ♦7, and I gave him a Club ruff for one off.
At least, it would have been nice if that's what really happened.
Declarer did really drop the ♦8 at trick one, so this defence was possible, but when in with my trump Ace I cashed my winning Diamond before playing Clubs. I knew this was matchpoints and was worried declarer had something like ♣Ax and was going to discard a Diamond. When I then played a Club to partner's Ace that was the end for the defence. I do believe John would have underled his Diamonds if I had of put him in with a Club earlier though (partly because he thought it was IMPs scoring).
Conceding 4♥= got us just 19%, so I suppose I shouldn't have worried about holding declarer to ten tricks.
After this missed opportunity for glory we did fairly well. I overbid a little but they mostly came home and we finished on 63%.
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