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Uncommon Sense A Counting Play

#1 User is offline   Winstonm 

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Posted 2007-July-29, 22:13

Scoring: MP

Right hand opponent opens with a weak 2H. You double, and West jumps to 4H, passed to you. You double again and that ends the auction.

You lead the club Ace (playing Ace from AKx), dummy plays the 3, partner plays the Queen, and declarer follows with the 2.

Plan the defense.

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Posted 2007-July-30, 05:10

I am probably way off but I'll give it a go.

I would play off the other club in case partner had a doubleton and give him a ruff, win the return, give him another ruff (assuming he can overruff the 6 and 3) and cash my jack if declarer had 5 not 4 clubs and my two aces, if just 4 clubs I'll still cash my two aces as I can't see any benefit to holding on to them.

If declarer can have voids in his pre-empts (I don't) I'm afraid which ace I can cash so I'll exit with ace and another heart (partner can't have the king or declarer would only have 5 pts at max). Ace and another so he can't put me in and make me guess which ace to cash. It can't hurt to exit with the hearts anyway, there's no way I'm not getting both of them even if he's not void in either.

8 tricks if declarer has 5 clubs, 7 if 4. Pretty profitable double!
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Posted 2007-July-30, 08:55

Partner won't have ♣Qx here - he wouldn't play the Q at T1. Still, it looks right to cash the club and let pard overruff the 3rd. It seems like a lock that pard can overruff dummy twice.

Declarer seems to be 1=6=1=5 or 2=6=0=5. With 0=6=2=5, Pard probably pulls the x with 6 spades.
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Posted 2007-July-30, 09:50

Partner better have the stiff Queen of ♣ or I'm getting a new partner. :D

Cash the King of ♣, lead the Jack, ruff and overruff.
Pointed suit back to me, declarer has a singleton I hope, another club ruff.
Other pointed suit back, declarer has a singleton I hope, another club ruff.
I still have the trump Ace to come.

We take 8 tricks assuming declarer is 1-6-1-5.
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Posted 2007-July-30, 20:07

This is a hand from actual play I defended years ago - the comments have made me realize I had the spots wrong. So sorry.

Dummy hold 102 in hearts.

Please look again.
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