Me and Rajat went for the game this Tuesday. It was a match point event. And we finished last. 22 boards. 5 zeros. 56 match points. 36.36% score. The joys of duplicate. Many surprising hands. Didn’t look like hand dealt at all. I was always very eager to bid and be the declarer or the dummy. It so happened that Rajat was never the declarer and I was declarer in 10 games. I probably overdid it as my fair share was 5-6 declarer games only out of 22. Most of the bad results are due to bad bidding. And rest was bad play. Need to learn much more. Five zeros in the score. Shows we played absolute worst on 5 boards. That can be reduced easily by bidding correctly.
| Board No. | Match Points | Play Mode | Observations |
| 1. | 2 | Declarer | Vulnerable 3 down, my mistake, didn’t check the vulnerability before bidding or vulnerable 2 down, doubled. My bad anyways. |
| 2. | 1.5 | Defender | Game was there for taking. Some people couldn’t bid it. We gave away an overtrick. So that’s bad for us. |
| 3. | 2 | Declarer | Went down one trick vulnerable, probably overbid. |
| 4. | 3 | Defender | Normal game, only one team bid game and went down heavy. |
| 5. | 1 | Declarer | On four of the tables, the board was passed. We bid something and went down one. Passers got better score. |
| 6. | 3.5 | Defender | A par score. Opponents bid a part score and made. On some tables over declared and went down. |
| 7. | 4.5 | Defender | One of the better results. Opponents bid a part score and made. Some tables they over bid, were doubled and went down heavy. |
| 8. | 6.5 | Defender | Best result. Opponents didn’t bid game which was there for taking. |
| 9. | 2 | Defender | Opponents bid a part score and made. Other tables they overbid and went down. |
| 10. | 6.5 | Declarer | Slam duck. Weird hand. Only one loser. Turned out to be a real loser. Weird bidding. Had the partner flabbergasted. 1C-2C-6C. Best idea would have been to do Blackwood. Seven clubs, 6 diamonds, only club ace missing. |
| 11. | 1.5 | Declarer | Went down one. Don’t remember due to game play or stretch bidding. |
| 12. | 0 | Defender | Bad play. Most other tables they went down one trick. Bad defender play. |
| 13. | 4 | Declarer | Par score. Okay stuff. One table bid in NT so went over. |
| 14. | 0 | Declarer | Again bad bidding on my part. Very weak hand. Should have let them play. Another reason to remember scoring completely so as to know the trade off. |
| 15. | 0 | Declarer | Stretch bidding. Probably overbid and went down. |
| 16. | 5 | Declarer | Bid 3, made 6. Someone bid that slam somehow. |
| 17. | 5.5 | Declarer | Bid a part score and made comfortably. |
| 18. | 1 | Defender | Gave away an overtrick probably. |
| 19. | 5 | Defender | Opponents bid a part score and made. |
| 20. | 0 | Defender | Opponents bid a small one and made big. Tried the smart play to take them down but was unsuccessful. |
| 21. | 1.5 | Defender | Opponents bid part score. Looks like we gave away a trick. |
| 22. | 0 | Defender | Gave away an overtrick or two. And they played NT. |
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