[akhare]

All vul. E dealer, pard opens 2C* in third seat and the bidding proceeds

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P - (P) - 2♣ [1] - (3♣) [2] - 5♣ - 5♠ - AP


[1]: 10-15 points, 6+ ♣ usually, could be 5+♣ in third seat
[2]: Majors

Pard leads K♦ (typically from A and you follow)
Pard cashes in A♦ and you discard?

You are playing upside down discards.

PS: This is a more amusing hand more than a serious defensive problem.

This post has been edited by akhare: 2012-May-13, 09:52

[Leo LaSota]

It seems as though your hand has one more club (2317?) than is given in the diagram. Regardless, this is a classic hand in which you trump one of your partner's tricks as you have a 100% defense. Ruff the high diamond at trick 2 and cash the ace clubs. Declarer cannot have a club void since that would require partner to have an opening bid (unless the card that you mistakenly left out of the East hand was the king of clubs).

[Statto]

Partner does have an opening bid in the system played, and bid it: 2♣ is 10-15 natural.

I too would like to know what my 13th card is...

The ♥A can't be going away - or can it? If it's IMPs I'll signal for a ♥ switch to make sure. If it's MPs I'm less certain; I might try to encourage a ♦ continuation in the hope that dummy ruffs high setting up a trump in partner's hand for an extra undertrick...

[dkham]

Partner must have short hearts - I'm going to ruff, cash the ace of hearts then another heart.

[akhare]

Ruffing second ♦ to cash in A♥ is a fine play.

Suffice to say that it didn't happen at the table and the "alternative course of action" that was chosen led to disaster, when the 5♥s in dummy went away on declarer's ♦ (which was the "amusing" part).

[Leo LaSota]

akhare, on 2012-May-14, 13:10, said:

Ruffing second ♦ to cash in A♥ is a fine play.

Suffice to say that it didn't happen at the table and the "alternative course of action" that was chosen led to disaster, when the 5♥s in dummy went away on declarer's ♦ (which was the "amusing" part).

I take it this means the card that you did not provide from the actual hand was the king of clubs? If so, ruffing and cashing ace hearts is reasonable. Otherwise, ruffing and leading ace clubs should work as partner should not have AK diamonds plus the KJxxx of clubs and pass initially playing your version of precision.

[JLOGIC]

Partner is the one who opened 2C leo. We are the ones who passed in first seat. Notice that partner was on lead, not us.

[dkham]

akhare, on 2012-May-14, 13:10, said:

... the 5♥s in dummy went away on declarer's ♦ (which was the "amusing" part).

Declarer did not have both majors then! Can you post the whole deal?

[Edit: I've got confused too about who declarer is. There's no chance of a heart ruff is there. But can you still post the whole deal?]

[akhare]

Here are the approximate complete hands. Note that I may have switched some spots around from the original post for brevity.

Suffice it to say that East fell from grace and West's third trick continuation (which made perfect bridge sense) led to disaster when all of dummy's ♥ went away on ♦s.

Astute readers should be able to deduce what may have happened .

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