[uday]

Declarer seems to have the SK. If his "big cards" are in C or H you'd think he wouldnt expose himself to 4 fast spade losers like this.

So, if he has the SK, he has 4D, 1S, 1C for 6 tricks, and he's only shown 8 HCP ( D AJ, SK) , and so he probably has one big card outside (HA, CK). If he has 2, he has 8 tricks, so he probably has only one, perhaps with a quack as a kicker.

Seems like you can collect 6 tricks ( 3S, 2D, 1 heart/club ) if you can get P in to play a trump through declarer, and if you can avoid coming under pressure later.

A simple plan would be to win SQ, switch to CJ, win SA, guess whether to put P in with a club or the HA (by underleading HK), draw trump, exit with another club.

[han]

jdonn, on May 22 2007, 10:48 AM, said:

Just be clear, I wasn't yelling at you because it was a bad lead in my mind, I was yelling at you because it was sickeningly good.

I know. I shouldn't have posted it like that because others would not.

[han]

uday, on May 22 2007, 11:46 AM, said:

A simple plan would be to win SQ, switch to CJ, win SA, guess whether to put P in with a club or the HA (by underleading HK), draw trump, exit with another club.

Yes, this seemed best to me too.

I played the club jack and partner won with the king. A diamond to the jack and queen came back and I cashed the diamond 10 to avoid being endplayed later. Partner discarded the heart 2 (udca).

I cashed the spade ace and heart king and exited with a club but anything reasonable would work. Partner even had the spade 9 so you can't get endplayed.

Scoring: IMP

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[foo]

Well, DD 2D is
-2 if you lead a C or a H or the DT or the D9
-1 if you lead anything else.

The normal CJ lead works just fine.

[han]

foo, on May 22 2007, 01:41 PM, said:

Well, DD 2D is
-2 if you lead a C or a H or the DT or the D9
-1 if you lead anything else.

The normal CJ lead works just fine.

Agree!