Enjoyable massacre

I had a pleasant evening playing with Hannie last night on BBO. We bid two slams (both down). One need to find the King of Queen of trumps on side (~75%). The field missed it, we bid it. The king-queen was off side. Dang. The other need to find Q of hearts missing Qxxx (so singleton queen, or doubleton queen, or you could choose to play for a finessee). Finessee was on, I played for the drop. We also bid a grand slam (that one made).

There was another hand, I held
S - Kx
H - Tx
D - AKxxx
C - AKQx

I opened 1D and partner bid 2H, showing 5S, 4H and a horrible hand. It is tough, but I bid 2S. As it turns out partner has Jx of clubs, and QJxxx of spades and the J9xx of hearts. Without the nine of hearts, they can take 4H and 1S. Even with hearts stymied, 3NT would have no play except that spades divide 3-3. Sigh. We were the only pair not "overbidding" but as is often teh case, overbidders were rewarded.

If I had time, I would post some of the interesting hands... Three hands based upon Riton 2C came up. On one, I used a jump to 3H (1H-1S-3H) to show the good suit (inferece from not using riton 2C)... to get to great game. On another, Hannie was able to "accept" a game try with 13 hcp because he had limited his hand by not using Riton 2C (1S-1N-2H-3H-4H). This game was not bid by others. And partner opened 2S of a 6-5 hand where the opponents are gin for 4H, and we can make 4S, so we stole the hand. Quite a successful use of the convention (without bidding 2C itself), if I must say so myself.