Aces are generally worth their weight in gold in a trump contract. Indeed many people favour variations on Milton Work's 4321 method of counting points that give more precedence to Aces and less to Jacks. Marty Bergen, for example, favours a scale of
Ace = 4.5
King = 3
Queen = 1.5
Jack = 0.75
10 = 0.5
Anyway, there's no doubt that the bullets really pulled their weight in this contract. It's also very true that final contracts of 1
and 1
are
much more common when a Pair is playing Precision. This hand shows off Precision at its best in staying low:
NS Game, Dealer SouthNorth (Dummy) 6
5
Q763
Q1087632
4 ledSouth J109832
A109
A82
A
I had opened the South hand with 1
, and everyone passed (Eszter apparently without a care in the world and not a moment's hesitation LOL). I decided to play West for the
King and went up with Dummy's Queen at trick 1 (and it held the trick). A Heart to my Ace and a
ruff, a Diamond back to my Ace and the
Ace saw me with 5 tricks, and I'd not even touched trumps yet.
In practice nothing could stop me from making an overtrick in this unpromising misfit. I knew it would be a decent result: EW can make 3
, but an amazing number of NS Pairs just kept on bidding all the way up to 4
. Even the handful of NS Pairs whose EW Opps overstretched to 4
and were doubled, going -1 weren't getting quite as good a result as our +110.
I
love this System!