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Posted 2008-December-03, 18:02

Scoring: MP

Pass Pass 1♦ Pass
1♥ 1♠ 1NT Pass
3NT All Pass


1NT is 15-17 hcp

Partner leads the ♠7 and declarer plays the king ...
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Posted 2008-December-04, 14:37

I guess this was too boring or too difficult or a non-problem ...

Maybe I should have added if you play the ace declarer follows with the ♠2.

Now the problem as I saw it was:

Does partner have ♠ J87 or ♠ 76?

Then the next issue was how good are declarer's diamonds?

And does declarer have the ♥A?

With something like:

♠ QJxx
♥ Ax
♦ AKQxx
♣ xx or Jx

We need to switch to a club - maybe low but ace might be fine at MPs

whereas with:

♠ Qxx
♥ Ax
♦ AQxxx
♣ Kxx

We need to set up our spades to beat the contract for sure
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Posted 2008-December-04, 14:51

I think it's more likely that declarer has a good spade stopper than a marginal one, given the free 1NT call, so I would switch to a club.
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Posted 2008-December-04, 14:56

Echognome, on Dec 5 2008, 09:51 AM, said:

I think it's more likely that declarer has a good spade stopper than a marginal one, given the free 1NT call, so I would switch to a club.

Ace or low?

Low at IMPs because you want to defeat the contract but this is MPs?
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Posted 2008-December-04, 15:44

I'd continue spades.

With QJ8x wouldn't declarer play low off dummy? This seems like it will generate more spade tricks to me.

So I play partner for 3 spades.
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