another partscore and misdefense

#1 frouu

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Posted 2010-July-17, 09:57

Scoring: IMP

(pass)-pass-(1♠)-pass
(2♣)-pass-(2♠)-pass
pass-pass

We lost hearts partscore. I passed as west, am I too conservative? Do you bid 2♥ with west hand?

defense:
lead: ♥ K x A x
♠ x J K x
♥ Q ♣ 3 T
♥ J ... lose rest makes +2 , club here down 1

what should the ♥3 signal mean here?
should west have figured out?

#2 hanp

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Posted 2010-July-17, 10:45

If you overcall 2H with the west hand, east will put you in game and you'd be -200 at least, worse than this. NS bid very badly by the way.

I think the heart signal should be count. West knows that south doesn't hold 4 hearts so can try to hit the winning minor.... and would probably play a diamond for the same result. Maybe a really good pair could signal for clubs with their trump return or something, I don't think I'd get this right.

and the result can be plotted on a graph.

#3 aguahombre

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Posted 2010-July-17, 11:03

How about an obvious suit preference heart 3 at trick one? Club jack, won by east , then spade shift ...etc., til the spade promo.

It is much easier to read suit pref when dummy has a singleton, than later on when count might be relevant.

"Bidding Spades to show spades can work well." (Kenberg)

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