[Fluffy]

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The bidding ain't a piece of beauty, I though jumping to 4 spades I could create some dilema on south who would not know to double me when north had 3 spade tricks, and perhaps he would bid 5 hearts and be catched by partner. In the end what I did was to oclude club suit, 6 clubs can be defeated, but made on the only table that reached it. Perhaps if I jsut bid 2 or 3 spades I would be able to bid clubs later.


Anyway, declarer led ♠4 and dummy called for small, and I also played my lowest one, since if anything I want to signal for clubs. Declarer decided to discard ♣Q on this trick.

I don't recall ever winning a 4 on the first trick, let alone a singleton 4 in a suit contract!. I recall several times winning a 5, mostly with someone being void against 1NT or 3NT, but somehow the 4 just never happened to me.

After thinking all of this, finally my partner stopped looking focus and looked away from the table, so I realiced she didn't know it was her turn to play. If winning a singleton 4 against a suit contract at trick 1 was not something unique, partner secured to make this hand memorable when she led ♥2 at trick 2...

[DozyDom]

It seems a decent assumption that partner hasn't noticed they won the trick anyway - they weren't paying attention during the bidding, why start during the play?

[Cyberyeti]

This reminds me of a case where in a thin slam that I thought very few would be in where the only danger was 2 trump losers, trump holding was Q10952 opposite A8764, so win trick 1 and trick 2 went 2-3-4-discard.

[FelicityR]

Fluffy, on 2019-October-02, 16:07, said:

The bidding ain't a piece of beauty, I though jumping to 4 spades I could create some dilema on south who would not know to double me when north had 3 spade tricks, and perhaps he would bid 5 hearts and be catched by partner. In the end what I did was to oclude club suit, 6 clubs can be defeated, but made on the only table that reached it. Perhaps if I jsut bid 2 or 3 spades I would be able to bid clubs later.

I'm no expert, let alone an international master, and at least you admit the bidding isn't a piece of beauty, but you did the one thing that I am always conscious of at the table: pre-empting your partner. With 7015 shape and a passed partner, and a weak hand already announced by North, I feel it's more sensible in my very humble opinion to bid 2♠ here. I can understand why you bid 4♠ as your defensive values are not great, but it's a mighty hand distribution-wise. Your ♠s look very favourable given that North has announced his/her holding and that enhances your hand offensively.