[MickyB]

This hand is from the White House Junior tournament. What do you think of the bidding, and how are you now going to slip a trick through? You are playing against the French, who will go on to take 3rd place.

Scoring: IMP

1♦-X-XX-1♠
P-P-2♣-2♥
3♥-3♠-P-P
3NT-P-P-X
AP
The ♠4 is led.
I played the ♠T from dummy, which was not covered.

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[hatchett]

[QUOTE] how are you now going to slip a trick through? [/QUOTE

What's the lead?

[MickyB]

[quote name='hatchett' date='Mar 27 2006, 07:53 AM'] [QUOTE] how are you now going to slip a trick through? [/QUOTE

What's the lead? [/quote]
Not one of the minor suit aces, unfortunately thanks for pointing this out!

[Free]

Since I'm in dummy, I'll try to steal a ♦ trick. LHO is short in ♦, so RHO will have some. The real question is if RHO will cover the J or not when he has A9xx. So it depends on your opps rather than you. If you got to steal your ♦ trick, just set up ♣s

[Gerben42]

Must be a ♠ since otherwise ♠T would be a revoke. I am leading ♦J, pretending to finesse opposite KT9xxx in hand. With ♠ blocked they will figure that I will have only 1 entry to hand, i.e. taking ♦A on the second round may well be right.

[han]

Yeah, I agree.

BTW, I think that this is a typical case of redouble-abuse. Is there really no way to show clubs immediately? Assuming that you are not playing something sensible like transfers over doubles, I would bid 2C whether it is forcing or not.

[MickyB]

Han, I agree that 2♣ would have been a better call on my partner's hand.

At the table, I took the K♠ and led a club up, which held. At the other table, the contract was played the other way around - the K♣ was led from dummy at trick 2, and my teammate (not unreasonably) ducked.

I'm fairly certain that my line isn't the best way to fool LHO into ducking, but it is reasonable in that he is likely to play low in tempo, whereas other options may cause him to think!

[Free]

I wonder why you play ♣. You have 9 cards in ♣, 8 cards in ♦. Honour holdings is very similar, but in ♣ you have more chance of a stiff Ace than in ♦...

[Fluffy]

I made 3NT +1, after sleeping 1 trick I was so happy (and sleepy) that I almost went down for misscounting my own ♣s. But in the end it didn't matter.

[temp3600]

Free, on Mar 30 2006, 04:24 PM, said:

I wonder why you play ♣.  You have 9 cards in ♣, 8 cards in ♦.  Honour holdings is very similar, but in ♣ you have more chance of a stiff Ace than in ♦... 

However, West doubled 1D for takeout, so that increases his chances of not having the stiff CA. And, if we lead a minor spot from our hand, he is more likely to be suspicious of a diamond than of a club.

But I think it is better to let the ST win. I place West with the two minor aces. With 5 spades and an ace, East might have competed to 2S. Overtaking with the K in my view clearly tells West that they have 3 spade tricks coming, and almost completely destroys our chances of West ducking a trick.
So I'd win the ST and let the DJ run.