[gwnn]

After we had beaten their NV undoubled sac by two tricks and me thinking of who could have doubled them, I found myself in the following defensive problem:

Scoring: IMP

1♠-2♥-2♠-x
p-3♥-all pass

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After the king of spades lead it was natural to overtake to play a club in case partner has the ace of clubs. That would have been 4 tricks but maybe partner has some sort of trump trick, who knows.

In practice my club return ran to the king in dummy and after pulling trump, declarer took out my ace of diamonds, and it was +1 (partner unblocked the queen of spades - not the point of discussion).

After the board my screenmate started laughing and pointed to the ace of clubs under the table that I had dropped some time between the auction ended and when dummy was put down.

Bottom line I think I play autopilot on defence a little too often.

[mink]

Had there been played a second !C trick before you got your !DA? In this case, you would have revoked and declarer gets another trick.

Karl

[gwnn]

no. he discarded them from dummy on pulling trump

[Rossoneri]

Well, it could either have been a lead out of turn or a revoke, depending on when you dropped it. Did you call the director?

Edit: I misread it thinking the card dropped on the table, on the floor...hmm now that's something else! But I still think director should have been called.

This post has been edited by Rossoneri: 2009-July-13, 01:13

[Fluffy]

yeah call director, he also wants to have a laugh from time to time