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Signalling methods

#1 User is offline   hutchau 

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Posted 2006-October-21, 17:42

I was kibitzing JEC & Alfredo recently defending a 4HX contract.Early in the hand declarer led the 9♣ towards dummys KQT2.
JEC played the 7♣ from J876 and Alfedo ducked with A543 allowing contract to make!!!!What happened here??I suggested that this happened because JEC had NOT played the 8♣[Play the highest you can afford when playing high...ie here the 7 denies the 8]
Many specs felt the 7♣ was a correct play, one saying that they ALWAYS play their 3rd highest in this situation as this informs[ partner that you dont have 2!! lower cards in this suit!!!![true but is this worthwhile information]
Very few at BBO follow the rule of "play your highest" which seems quite basic to me.Experts will "encourage" by playing the 3 from A832. Do these players play in games where declarer isnt allowed to "hide"little cards??
Please dont tell me that UDCA solves this problem...it doesnt.The PRINCIPLE still applies.
Do you have another way of carding here that makes sense?
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Posted 2006-October-21, 20:08

play the clearest possible card you can afford. With J876 I would never play the 7 no matter what carding I used. If I played standard I would play the 8, ud I would play the 6. When you play the 7 in standard you can have J87 or 76. The only holding you CAN'T have is J876
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