Here is an amusement from yesterday,with bidding agreements (or lack thereof), play, and luck (much luck) all get into the act.
Matchpoints, vul against not vul, partner deals and opens 2
.
This is a Prime free tourney: I belong to Prime, and part of the package is a free tourney each Saturday where each player plays 12 boards with the robots. The robots tell you what the bids mean, both theirs and your, but you have to look.
My hand:
2
AKQJ54
AK52
QJ
Ok, surely 3
is forcing, why bother to look. So I bid 3
, followed be three passes.
KQ9763
T2
JT
T82
2
AKQJ54
AK52
QJ
We have an obvious six heart tricks plus two diamond tricks, the opponents have an obvious three tricks, two in clubs, one in spades so two tricks are up for grabs. Remarkably, the two minor suit tens are the key to taking ten tricks. The
finesse is off, the A is with my Rho, and the
finesse is off. However, it they take the top clubs then my T is good and I can develop a spade trick. On the other hand if they don't take their clubs, either before or after I establish a spade trick, then I can toss a club on the high spade, and lose one club, one spade and one diamond. Not everyone did this, so +170 scored54 %. Of course 620 scores 84% but not everyone who bid the game made the game so, with more luck than I am entitled to, I survived.
I really thought the bots played
Raise
Only
Non
Force. But maybe I should just look at what the self-alerts say!
Live and Learn.
Huh: I just now (Monday) checked the Gib cc. They do indeed play RONF. I had thought so. Seems I am entitled to a raise to 4
!