[skjaeran]

Scoring: MP

P 3♠ P 4♠
all pass

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Your partner lead the ♦K. You're agreement is to give attitude, not count here. How do you plan the defence? More info in hidden text.

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You overtake with the ace and lay down the ♣K. Declarer follow with the 9 and partner the 4. You're using standard count and low encourage. What now?

[FrancesHinden]

I don't follow your line in the hidden text.

I tell partner at trick one how many diamonds I have. Then he will know how many are cashing.

[skjaeran]

FrancesHinden, on Aug 22 2007, 02:12 PM, said:

I don't follow your line in the hidden text.

I tell partner at trick one how many diamonds I have. Then he will know how many are cashing.

Using standard count, the 9 would be ambigous, since it could be from AJ9 or AJ9x.
The jack is unambigous (need to be AJ9x) probably, since you'd overtake with AJ tight. So that should work, I agree.

[Fluffy]

I overtake and switch to ♣J

My reasoning is that partner doesn't need to encourage ths card (if declarer plays low), so he can give count.

If having to play 2 rounds of a suit to get a real count, it is better for it to be clubs than diamonds.

Ok, after writign all of this I realise if declarer lpays ♣Q partner doesn't have a clue who has ♣K and will probalby just play ♦Q :/