Trumpace, on Apr 11 2006, 02:10 PM, said:
I think i will go for the diamonds to be 3-2 with Q being in the doubleton hand.
East is likely to hold King of hearts. Also, seems like he will not hold more than 3 hearts.
So after winning the ♠A, lead the ♥J. If East covers, duck. East cannot continue spades to his advantage. Now you can win the return, draw trumps and enjoy the diamonds.
If east fails to cover, we can draw trumps and run the diamonds.
Quite reasonable approach....
...but...oops....I made a mistake in description of the bidding, there was no 2 clubs call from the left....
In summary, my LHO passed all the time, my RHO bid spades twice. Does it make any difference? I think, it does.
I tried to play the board the following way (hoping for trumph king onside and 3 diamonds in LHO hand, but not needing diam Q onside):
1)spade ace 2)diamond ace 3)diamond king 4)small diamond, ruff 5)small spade, ruff 6)small club to ace 7)small spade ruffed with jack 8)diam to tripple void ruffed with ten 9)anything but trumph AQ.....10-13)two more tricks made with trumph AQ....
I knew that there could have been additional problem as soon as my RHO had ruffed third round of diamonds immediately with 8 or 9 with an attempt to promote partners trumphs. but it was quite possible that
1) he would not do that 2)some variant would appear, I still would made the contract - the situation would have been quite complicated in such case to be analyzed here.
Do you think, this variant of playing the hand was reasonable?
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