[manudude03]

Scoring: IMP

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Auction for completeness:
2S-(P)-3D-(3H)
P-(4H)-6S-AP

Lead is the ♥6. You ruff the lead and cash the ♦A, which gets ruffed with the 2 by West. ♠3 lead back (heart lead would obviously have been fatal) East follows with the 8, what's your plan?

If you don't agree with the initial line, feel free to say.

[maggieb]

This problem is very computational! (ugh, stupid liberal arts degree )

I think I changed my mind, I agree with your start. The bidding makes it too likely spades are 4-1 to overtake the ♠K, though I would do this with no opposition bidding.

After your start I would just try to get back to hand with a club. Yes, there is no legitimate layout where this should work, but the alternative seems worse, since I didn't get Lightner'd.

[jdonn]

I am not able to compute this accurately, nor inclined to try, but I think I agree with your start. If AK of diamonds had held up then I would play king of spades and a diamond. If rho showed out I could ruff as low as possible and be virtually cold. If rho followed I would ruff high and hope for 3-2 trumps by drawing another round, assuming ten of spades is outstanding play a club to dummy, and pitch the heart on a diamond.

From the point you reached, I guess I overtake the spade and hope they come down. I infer they are breaking well at this point or else LHO might well have played another heart (certainly with Txx of spades remaining, for example.)

[Fluffy]

What Josh said.

[andy_h]

yeap, agree with jdonn

[mtvesuvius]

I think Josh is right...

[rogerclee]

Out of curiosity, what shape(s) are the above four posters playing RHO to be on? 2551? 2650?

[nige1]

manudude03, on Dec 26 2008, 02:10 PM, said:

Dealer: South Vul: None Scoring: IMP

♠ KJ ♥   ♦ AKJ942 ♣ AKQ53 ♠ AQ9764 ♥ 74 ♦ 83 ♣ 982

Auction for completeness: 2S-(P)-3D-(3H) P-(4H)-6S-AP Lead is the ♥6. You ruff the lead and cash the ♦A, which gets ruffed with the 2 by West. ♠3 lead back (heart lead would obviously have been fatal) East follows with the 8, what's your plan? If you don't agree with the initial line, feel free to say.

I agree with manudude03's start: ruff the ♥ lead and cash top ♦s although you now seem doomed when, surprisingly, LHO ruffs ♦A. LHO's ♠ return may have granted you a reprieve.

• If you think LHO was 2605, then you should win ♠K on the table, cash ♦K and ruff a ♦.
  
• If you think LHO was 3505 (which does seem more likely), then you should follow JDonn's line, overtaking dummy's ♠K with ♠A.

In either case, you can draw trumps and use dummy's ♣ entries to ruff out a ♦ winner,

[manudude03]

The hand was rotated to make south declarer in OP.

Scoring: IMP

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The trump lead at T3 seemed strange to say the least. I ended up overtaking the king and finished off 2.

[Fluffy]

grosvenor switch to trumps

[rogerclee]

Fluffy, on Dec 28 2008, 08:08 AM, said:

grosvenor switch to trumps

We were always playing for some kind of impossible layout at this point.