[whereagles]

Francis Blake, capitain of the MI5 and friend of Philip Mortimer

[Thymallus]

I don't see how one can work out for sure who has the queen of clubs. It seems marginally more likely that East has it.

I would play off the remaining trump to see if I get any more info, like a heart/club discard from east. Then play a low club from hand and watch East carefully. If he/she sits there as quiet as a mouse this is a moderately good poker tell for them having the Queen. Similarly if they start reaching for their card as you play from hand they probably don't have the Queen.

Without any info I suppose I would play east for the missing Q though the 2 Diamond overcall seems very frisky.

I discovered, serendipitously, that if you print a thread then hidden text is revealed. Is there an easier way to see hidden text without destroying rain forests

Thanks

john

[1eyedjack]

Thymallus, on May 4 2006, 10:28 PM, said:

I discovered, serendipitously, that if you print a thread then hidden text is revealed. Is there an easier way to see hidden text without destroying rain forests

Drag your mouse over it (with the mouse button depressed)

[inquiry]

1eyedjack, on May 4 2006, 04:47 PM, said:

Thymallus, on May 4 2006, 10:28 PM, said:

I discovered, serendipitously, that if you print a thread then hidden text is revealed. Is there an easier way to see hidden text without destroying rain forests

Drag your mouse over it (with the mouse button depressed)

You can also hit the "quote" button and then scroll through the text... or cut and paste it if you want into something esle.

[han]

or use recycled paper.

[han]

luke warm, on May 4 2006, 05:31 AM, said:

Hannie, on May 3 2006, 08:42 PM, said:

I said no such thing.

well you said this

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"With x xxx KQJxxx Qxx west would likely have opened 3D at these colors"

and i said this

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"with the club Q west might have opened some number of diamonds" since "there are 9 hcp out and west is known to hold 5 of them, east 2"

so the two statements appear similar to me

The point was that west would be more likely to open 3D with 1-3-6-3 shape than with 1-4-6-2 shape, not that west would be more likely to open 3D with the club queen. I think that this is evident when you read my whole post, not just the sentence you quoted Jimmy.

[ArcLight]

Frances are you going to post the hand?

[jdeegan]

I don't think we can draw any inference from the ♥ Q discard. RHO knows the distribution of the heart suit. If LHO had not passed first seat, I would consider his having three clubs or two clubs as equally likely, so finessing RHO for the club queen makes sense.

However,

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there must be some reason for that initial pass rather than a 2♦ weak two bid. The most likely is that he has four hearts - I would bet on it assuming that is what they play. (If not, back to original plan). Now, I may pay off to the Q doubleton of clubs, but bridge (they tell me) is a game of percentages.