Bridge of AngST

Pesta Sukan wasn’t that good an outing, but I guess I did the best I could when I was playing.

Just finished TD theory test yesterday, practical is this saturday. Hopefully I’ll be able to pass!

I misdeclared this hand while practising with Jason:

♠ K53 ♥ KQJ83 ♦ K53 ♣ 82

♠ T94 ♥ 972 ♦ A7 ♣ AQT53

Lead was 9 of clubs. I took with the A, cleared the diamonds ending with a ruff in dummy, next I led a trump towards the K and it held, now I exited with a club and when the Q of spades was returned, covered by Q and A, Jack of spade and now S shows out, after the ruff the contract was doomed of course.

I should have perhaps tried to finesse against the T of hearts. From South’s double, it appears that he has 4 trumps, most likely ATxx. I can’t be hurt by spades from North, so the finesse should be right.

Edit: I took a second look, and realised that even if the finesse works, I might end up locking myself in my own hand.

From a teammatch I played with some other Singaporeans, I was partnering Kelvin Ng (smoz).

♠ JT4 ♥ 5 ♦ 9432 ♣ AQJT8

♠ KQ853 ♥ AQJ72 ♦ ♣ K52

After 2 passes, you open 1S, LHO overcalls 1NT and you bid 2S. What would you do?

The other table’s result was 6SX=.

♠ T8 ♥ AK87 ♦ AKQ95 ♣ Q3

♠ KJ7 ♥ QT2 ♦ J743 ♣ AK6

Of course, I should have bid 6NT. W had a singleton S, but we still made after partner threw the T on the first round under the A.

♠ Q9765 ♥ T9 ♦ 2 ♣ J9873

♠ A2 ♥ AJ753 ♦ AK5 ♣ AQ6

How would you play 3S after a lead of the T of S?