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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2008-February-02, 13:07

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Partner shows 5+♣ and 4♠ and you try 4♠.

LHO leads a heart that looks like top of doubleton (the 9). Over to you.
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Posted 2008-February-02, 13:10

I would win the ace and lead a low club off and see what happens. If they play small I have 2 options:

1) Try to score 8 trump tricks and 2 aces.

2) lead a heart up.

I would probably go for line 1 and start ruffing stuff.
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Posted 2008-February-02, 14:42

They both follow low (suggesting odd number of clubs).
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Posted 2008-February-02, 16:04

I'd hook the heart. After a trump shift, I'll try to bash a few hearts through LHO before crossruffing.

It seems trying to draw trump and establish clubs takes too much but I could be wrong.
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Posted 2008-February-02, 16:48

gwnn, on Feb 2 2008, 10:42 PM, said:

They both follow low (suggesting odd number of clubs).

LHO giving count after you have showed out? lolol
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Posted 2008-February-02, 16:49

Jlall, on Feb 2 2008, 08:10 PM, said:

I would win the ace and lead a low club off and see what happens. If they play small I have 2 options:

1) Try to score 8 trump tricks and 2 aces.

2) lead a heart up.

I would probably go for line 1 and start ruffing stuff.

Seems very sensible to me.
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Posted 2008-February-03, 08:24

pclayton, on Feb 2 2008, 11:04 PM, said:

I'd hook the heart. After a trump shift, I'll try to bash a few hearts through LHO before crossruffing.

It seems trying to draw trump and establish clubs takes too much but I could be wrong.

I don't see the point of hooking the heart. Unless you think they might lead the 9 from K9, you must be better playing ace and another. First is doesn't block the suit, and secondly you only have the OP telling you that the lead isn't a singleton. At the table you don't know that.
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Posted 2008-February-04, 08:51

The xruff worked. Even though RHO had only 2 diamonds, he didn't have a high enough spade to overruff dummy. I got a horrible result on this one, though, most people got 450 and some got 480. :o :( :P
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Posted 2008-February-04, 09:15

gwnn, on Feb 4 2008, 09:51 AM, said:

The xruff worked. Even though RHO had only 2 diamonds, he didn't have a high enough spade to overruff dummy. I got a horrible result on this one, though, most people got 450 and some got 480.  B)  :(  :huh:

North will typically be the declarer, so perhaps east has a normal heart lead?! Then the crossruff gives 11 tricks.

I think the crossruff line seems most promising.
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Posted 2008-February-04, 09:23

random silliness deleted.
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