Mike Yuen — Mike talks about bridge

Not ready for prime time!

After a week of free beer and complementary second hand smoke in the casino, I stumbled into my seat to play The Jacoby Swiss. 

The very first board as East, I pick up ♠ QJx  x  AKQJ  AKxxx

The auction : 

W
West
N
North
E
East
S
South
Pass
1
21
Pass
42
Dbl
4
Pass
Pass
4NT3
5
Pass
Pass
Dbl
All Pass
(1) Majors
(2) Short Diamond
(3) Minors

Partner led a club. 

This dummy came down.  xxx  Q109x  x  AQJ102

One look at dummy and I could not stop laughing as I flopped my hand on the table. “look, there are two Club Aces in this board?!” After everybody had a look at the hands, we even turned the cards over to make sure we had the same colour deck.

We called the police. After looking at the hands, the director said to me ” You have the Ace of Spades not the Ace of Clubs!” ” You have 13 penalty cards!” At this point I was still laughing, started gathering up my hand thinking we were going to reshuffle the board. But no this declarer insisted on playing the board as is! 

My real hand :  AQJx  x  AKQJ  Kxxx

Declarer played as if he could see all four hands. That was a light bulb moment, suddenly I understood what double dummy meant, there was one in front of declarer, then there was the other in my seat. 

He won the Club lead with The Ace. Play the Queen of Clubs, ruff out my King. Drew trumps in two rounds ending in dummy, discarded all but one of his Spades on the good clubs. At the end give up two tricks and claimed 11 tricks. Made 5  X.

Sobering second thought, why don’t they have free beers at the bridge tournament!?

 

The correct board :

 
1
None
North
N
North
xxx
Q1092
x
AQJ10x
 
W
West
K
xx
10xxxxx
9xxx
9
E
East
AQJx
x
AKQJ
Kxxx
 
S
South
10xxxx
AKJxxx
xx
 

 


4 Comments

Fred LernerApril 12th, 2016 at 4:17 am

Michael. .you know that game we arranged to play, well I don’t think I’ll be able to make it. Cheers, 🙂

MichaelApril 12th, 2016 at 4:48 pm

Hey Freddy, you are breaking my heart Will buy you a beer in May.

Chris DiamondJune 1st, 2016 at 2:03 pm

Getting old sucks. Time for a new eyeglass prescription huh?

MichaelJune 1st, 2016 at 11:03 pm

You are right, they say you first lose you mind then everything else follow!

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