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The ♦8 is lead to East's A, who returns the J to your K and West's 5. You play off 4 rounds of spades and East shows out on the 4th spade.
What now?
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Handling the 5-0
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- Deipnosophist
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Posted 2006-May-09, 18:39
You have a bit of a bidding mixup with partner and end up in 4♠ rather than 3NT or the much safer 5♣.
The ♦8 is lead to East's A, who returns the J to your K and West's 5. You play off 4 rounds of spades and East shows out on the 4th spade.
What now?
The ♦8 is lead to East's A, who returns the J to your K and West's 5. You play off 4 rounds of spades and East shows out on the 4th spade.
What now?
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Posted 2006-May-09, 22:28
Looks like giving up the last ♠ at once protects your ♥K, so you lose ♦A, a trump and ♥A at most.
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Posted 2006-May-09, 23:20
Very nice hand.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2006-May-10, 04:56
Sadly I only saw the line you're all picking up when I had the complete deal. I played 4 rounds of spades, got the bad news and decided to hope the long spade hand had three clubs also, so I could get to dummy to throw a diamond.
Needless to say he was 5422.
Bah!
Needless to say he was 5422.
Bah!
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Posted 2006-May-10, 17:36
As a defensive problem, can we think of a reason for East to shift to heart at trick 2 (after seeing the hands and the bidding, of course)?
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