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Rise? Or not?

Poll: Do you cover? (18 member(s) have cast votes)

Do you cover?

  1. Yes (10 votes [55.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 55.56%

  2. No (8 votes [44.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 44.44%

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#1 User is offline   Rossoneri 

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Posted 2008-July-24, 03:54

Scoring: MP

bidding went: P P P and now North opens 1♠. Thereafter:
1♠-2♥
3♦-3NT
4♥ AP

Partner now leads 3♣, ruffed in dummy and now a low ♠ is played. Do you cover?


Do you play the A♠?
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Posted 2008-July-24, 08:39

bad thing here is that it's dangerous to break the tempo - hypothetically declarer held small spade, winning defense could be spade back from p and that is unethical if tempo was broken

i try to learn as much sound plays as i can for the situations where tempo is crucial (some of them are for ethical reasons and some for not making declarer's life easier) and differentiate them from positions over which i can ponder for a minute

so i think it's sound to raise the ace here in tempo
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Posted 2008-July-24, 10:02

I fully agree that it is dangerous to break tempo now...

That's why you should have done that before you played the ♣6 at trick 1...

I think that realizing that is more important than figuring out whether to rise or play low.

FWIW, I assume that you play 1/3/5 leads and I would rise, playing declarer for 1525. I would return a diamond in case he happens to be Kx/5/1/5.

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