A Fun Deal

I sat down and played a few hands against a couple of pretty good players.  My partner was a Pole who really didn’t understand 2/1 or Standard or anything similar so I got to play Polish Club for a few hands.  I haven’t actually played it before but I know the moves and I have talked about playing it with Colin.  Anyway, I survived that.  Here was a cute hand that where I actually paid attention and played the hand correctly.  Have a go and see if it makes you feel good too.

We are vulnerable

The opening lead was the ♥A.  I was going to need a lot of stuff.  The ♠A onside and a way to play clubs for one loser.  I won the ♥Q in dummy and played another heart to discover that hearts were 4-1 on my right.  East discarded a diamond.  I played a spade up to dummy and it held.  Do you see how this is going to go? Do you have a plan?

I crossed to my hand with another heart as LHO threw another diamond.  This time she won the ♠A and got out a spade.  Spades were 3-3 so she was likely 3-1-4-5 especially after she discarded two diamonds so painlessly.  I now cashed the fourth trump and she threw a club.  On the last spade however her discard wasn’t so painless.  This was the position.

Whatever she throws the hand is over.  At the table she threw a club so I simply gave up a club and then a diamond.

This was the whole hand

It wasn’t really all that tough but I did have to pay attention to discards something I find I am not that good at on BBO.