Fat turkey

Hi all

Last Thursday I enjoyed my first Thanksgiving ever. Discard soberness, the task at hand was to indulge in enormous amounts of food. I’m not exaggerating here, there was not just one 16-pound-turkey prepared for us (some twenty people), no, there were two of those beasts waiting for us. 

I have some nice memories from the day before as well. I was a mercenary for Leerdam in the ICL. This game I had a trick up my sleeve, and when the opponent didn’t pay attention for a moment, I got away with murder.

South
K8765
8
AQ962
JT

West
North
East
South
 
pass
pass
1
double
31
4
4
double
a.p.
 
 

1. Weak, 4+

I thought I had an easy save against their vulnerable game, but look what happened:

North Dealer
EW Vul
North
AJ32
543
73
9765
West
Q4
AQ96
K854
A83
East
T9
KJT72
JT
KQ42
South
K8765
8
AQ962
JT

West started with a trump for the Ace in dummy. I finessed in directly and West fired back his Queen of trumps for my King. When I played the Ace of I noticed East had dropped two pretty valuable cards. So far I’ve only lost one trick, but there are still a and two to lose. If only I could dispose of three  in dummy.

Ingredients: an evil and greedy mind + sleepy West

I innocently played the 6 of from hand and West followed with the 5. Bingo! Next I was able to discard two more  from dummy and claim +590.