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Posted 2008-January-16, 08:22

I wil give you a North hand and the dummy.

The auction:

West North East South
3NT* All Pass

* 3NT shows 16-19 with a semisolid minor.

North leads the ♥K, South plays the 3, declarer playing the 8. The ♥K wins the trick.

In principle, NS play original fourth best continuations to show distribution. What heart should North play to trick 2 to make South switch to a spade?

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Posted 2008-January-16, 08:26

Are we allowed to see the dummy?
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Posted 2008-January-16, 08:28

FrancesHinden, on Jan 16 2008, 09:26 AM, said:

Are we allowed to see the dummy?

You are fast!

I thought I fixed it immediately.

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Posted 2008-January-16, 08:28

am I dumb or this is just an easy ♥7 continuation?
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Posted 2008-January-16, 09:38

Fluffy, on Jan 16 2008, 08:28 AM, said:

am I dumb or this is just an easy ♥7 continuation?

Me too.
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Posted 2008-January-16, 09:43

If you play ♥7 losing to the Ace (only missing card), partner will look at it and see it was the highest missing card out so whenever he gets in he should return a ♠.
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Posted 2008-January-16, 10:05

Let me ask an other question first:

Suppose that you were not interested in getting any particular lead.

Which heart would you then play?

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Posted 2008-January-18, 22:22

You only have 3 cards you can afford to play. I don't think you can make 4 different signals (preference among 3 suits and no preference).

If you didn't have a re-entry you probably wouldn't have bothered continuing the suit. So I think it's best for partner to assume you do have an entry, and thus the card on trick 2 is suit preference.

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Posted 2008-January-18, 23:23

Trinidad, on Jan 16 2008, 10:05 AM, said:

Let me ask an other question first:

Suppose that you were not interested in getting any particular lead.

Which heart would you then play?

Rik

If I don't have an entry I lead a low heart at trick one :)
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Posted 2008-January-18, 23:43

Trinidad, on Jan 16 2008, 11:05 AM, said:

Let me ask an other question first:

Suppose that you were not interested in getting any particular lead.

Which heart would you then play?

Rik

It seems that you are suggesting that the 7 would be the normal count card so you should play 6. That is wrong. Count is irrelevant and partner will know that. Hence, the 7 is SP.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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