[thepossum]

I was regretting my slightly psychy opening bid. I did miss a heart game but it could have been worse

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[LBengtsson]

I have never regretted -50 as a bad score when you do something crazy at the bridge table

(Though why GIB switches to a♥ at trick 2 is just crazier. I guess someone will explain GIB 'logic')

[smerriman]

LBengtsson, on 2022-September-29, 00:20, said:

(Though why GIB switches to a♥ at trick 2 is just crazier. I guess someone will explain GIB 'logic')

Pretty straightforward really. South is guaranteed a second diamond from the 1NT bid, and West would have led low from JT76, so declarer doesn't have doubleton KQ. So no layouts exist where it's important to lead a diamond now.

But this is the only time we'll be on lead, and there may be a need to lead a heart through declarer. Heart looks to be clearly the right play to me, unless I'm missing something.

[thepossum]

Ok then��

Looking at the hand I am rather upset that partner didn't ask me for my majors but I can't really complain about that. 1NT seems a reasonable contract but so does game

It must be inflation 17+8 isn't what it used to be

Apologies I can't get anything to bid with 8 points opposite a strong NT. My mistake

Will check a sim. Maybe it doesn't stack up well

EDIT Apologies to GiB. Its only 8 tricks with very big variance

EDIT 2 but its a 54% chance of game if I have the maximum. Hmmmm. I need another partner