Me and several other Juniors (Cam Shunta "goon1407", Jakob Rohde "jakob_r", and Robert Stephens "rob88s") had the honor to play Jimmy Cayne today. We were down 20 after the first 3 boards, but recovered and were leading for several boards 29-24. Then Jimmy got to declare 4 hands in a row, where I started dropping defensive tricks like they were going out of style. It seemed that I couldn't guess anything right. In the end we wound up losing by 38 IMPs, which was respectable, but it could have been much better. On the first board I was put to a guess, and failed. Here was the hand: (8S lead. Opponents play Standard Carding and 4th best leads. What's your T1 play?)
Q62
AQJ
AJ74
T72
T75
K93
Q6
KQJ65
You're in 3NT? The only way to make this is to guess who has JS and hope spades 4-3 or 6-1 and east with club ace. In both cases, J seems to be likely with west and I would play small but since you blogged this hand, I bet West has AK98 and playing Q would win :) Tough!
ReplyDeleteYep, I played small, and Jimmy won the Jack and they ran their 4S and 1C for down 1, what a way to start the match!
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