-----I was in Romania for 22nd European Youth Championship at 8-18 July as a member of Turkish U-26 team. This was my first national team experience and it is a great pleasure that is hard to explain in words.
What should have been written after a unsuccessful championship. You can either write lots of things or there is nothing to talk. Our situation is absolutely the former one.
Really don't know where to start but there is one board has prior to the others .
This board was played in vugraph against Israel which was our 13. Match.
You are holding:
♠AOJx
♥J
♦xxx
♣KQ984
Both non vul your left opened 4♦ and pas pas, your turn.
You don't face with these sequences and I don't want to just pass and let the board go. First I thought about dbl. However, it is most probable that my p will bid 4♥ and if I bid 4♠ I was not sure if I show too much values or not. Also I thought to bid 4♠ and then made my last decision as 5♣. RHO has more to bid and dbled 5♣ and all pass.
N-----E----S----W
4♦----p----p----5♣
p------p----dbl---All pass
Lead Ace of ♦ and dummy is:
♠AQJx---------♠Kxx
♥J----------------♥K9874
♦xxx------------♦x
♣KQ984-------♣A752
After playing Ace of ♦, defence continued with a low ♠ . Now I took it with J of ♠ and ruffed ♦ small dropping Q from RHO. Then, I played ♣ followed low by RHO and played 9 and LHO discarding a ♦. Now all hands are clear. (LHO has 2 spades because he played small ♠ mentioning even number of cards according to their signalling.)
♠xx
♥xxxx
♦AKJxxxx
♣-
----All I will do is to play ♥ to get 5 clubs from hand 3 from dummy and 3 spades with 11 tricks. However, I ruffed another ♦ with Ace, cashed spades and finally giving 1 more trump with -1. In the closed it was played 5♣ taking 10 tricks undoubled.
If I could think a bit properly I would have find out solution but couldn't manage it. If there wont be dbl to 5♣ it is hard to play for 4-0 ♣ break but which can be played against bad distribution of ♣ again mentioning LHO has unbalanced hand showing 7-8 cards ♦. So, if I had played as I told, this hand would be one of my bests.
-----To those who are not satisfied (like me) with the bidding. Better offer is to dbl 4♦ and after partners 4♥ bid 4♠ shows these kind of hands; with ♣ and ♠, more than one suited strong ♠ hand.
