Indy 3

Another indy. Kind of a weird format.

Anyways, finished 1st of 44. I'm very pumped. Of course, A) It will probably never happen again, and B) my opponents helped out a lot.

Really, I'm not sure I can take full credit for this.

On to the interesting hands.

Board 3:

	♠ 32 ♥ AQ75 ♦ 85 ♣ K6532
♠ AKJ74 ♥ J63 ♦ J43 ♣ Q7		♠ QT865 ♥ 982 ♦ Q96 ♣ T9
	♠ 9 ♥ KT4 ♦ AKT72 ♣ AJ84

West	North	East	South
1♠	p	4♠	X
p	p	p

Kudos to partner for leaving the double in, as this scored +1100, for a cool 90%.

Next hand:

Board 4

Dealer N Vul All Scoring Imp Lead ♦T	♠ Q98 ♥ Q ♦ T965 ♣ QJ963
♠ AJ4 ♥ A876532 ♦ 3 ♣ 74		♠ 7632 ♥ K94 ♦ Q842 ♣ 85
	♠ KT5 ♥ JT ♦ AKJ7 ♣ AKT2

West	North	East	South
	p	p	1♦
1♥	p	2♥	X
p	3♦	p	p
4♥	p	p	p

Partner asked after the hand if I considered doubling. I did, and maybe it's right. I was concerned, though, that opponent was bidding based on a diamond void, in which case my hand was suddenly devalued. Turns out it was a singleton, and we collected 90% anyways.

Board 10

Dealer W Vul All Scoring Imp Lead ♣2	♠ J8 ♥ 74 ♦ AKT9432 ♣ AQ
♠ AKQT ♥ 986 ♦ 86 ♣ K975		♠ 7642 ♥ KJT53 ♦ 5 ♣ T32
	♠ 952 ♥ AQ2 ♦ QJ7 ♣ J864

West	North	East	South
1♣	1♦	1♥	1NT
2♥	3♦	p	p
p

This one was tough to bid. I'm not really sure I did it right, and was really unsure when we made +3. Fortunately, we took 75% anyways.

Board 12

Dealer N Vul E/W Scoring MP Lead ♥A	♠ K76 ♥ AQJ876 ♦ J6 ♣ KT
♠ AQ8 ♥ T532 ♦ T4 ♣ QJ87		♠ ♥ K9 ♦ Q9532 ♣ A96542
	♠ JT95432 ♥ 4 ♦ AK87 ♣ 3

West	North	East	South
	1♥	2NT	3♠
4♣	4♥	5♣	p
p	p

As soon as I bid 3 spades, it occurred to me that 4 spades was much better. We only scored 40% here - we needed to either bid 4 spades and play there, or double 5 clubs.

I think I should be the one to double 5 clubs, so I take all the blame here.