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#1 User is offline   mgoetze 

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Posted 2015-February-14, 19:49



(1) Do you agree with the bidding?
(2) What do you play to trick 2?
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Posted 2015-February-14, 20:17

♣3

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2015-February-14, 20:45

With a doubleton club, leading a club would roughly be partner's 4th choice.
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Posted 2015-February-14, 22:31

I admit I would x 6d and expect p to take it as lightner so they will probably
have little trouble finding a heart lead. Under these conditions I feel we need to
lead a low club back to get a heart back. The 5d bid was aggressive so there is
little reason to assume p would pick a club if it was not singleton.
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Posted 2015-February-15, 08:47

small club seems very obvious
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Posted 2015-February-15, 14:33

View Postmgoetze, on 2015-February-14, 19:49, said:


(1) Do you agree with the bidding?
(2) What do you play to trick 2?

  • West's 5♦ bid was brave. North might have tried a Lightner double but that would just make this problem harder.
  • Unless East has a mountain, the contract seems doomed. Having won ♣A, it is hard, at trick 2, to lead into dummy's tenace, especially when declarer is likely to be short of tricks. The mitigating factor appears as the actual play went. If declarer has the missing ♣, you can give partner a ruff. But even if declarer has no more ♣s, he can set up 3rd ♣ trick, by force, via the ruffing finesse, without your help, so a ♣ return might sacrifice a tempo but not a trick. Neverthess, If declarer had a losing ♠, mgoetze would not be posing this problem.

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Posted 2015-February-16, 20:59

So I felt like double would have asked for a club lead, but I was unsure. Maybe I should have just shown the bidding and polled what people thought double would ask for. Anyway



I appreciate nige1's sympathy. In hindsight returning a club would clearly have been correct but for some reason I felt that I would have a good chance of defeating the contract even without it; East turned out to be stronger than I expected.
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