Any hope?
You deal yourself a nice looking 19 hcp vul opp fresh and thinking of all the slam auction sequences that you play, you open a club.
W
natskh
♠
AJ92
♥
K
♦
K73
♣
AKJ75
Things don’t quite go the way you had hoped for. It soon becomes clear that not only are you not going to be in a slam or game, infact you are going to end up defending a partial. Here’s the auction as it unfolds.
W
West
N
North
E
East
S
South
1♣
1♦
Pass
1♥
Dbl
2♥
3♣
3♥
All Pass
With opponents bidding both red suits, your kings aren’t worth much. Pd doesn’t have spades so if you are going to compete it will have to be at 4 level. So you take the low road and pass 3♥ . Nobody has any more to say.
It seems natural to lead ♣ A, nothing else has any appeal so you make it.
Lets see the dummy.