Posted 2009-September-24, 15:44
1) What order should partner be playing from with J7 doubleton? If J, then 7, then partner has 3 cards and is trying to direct your switch. If 7, then J, then partner deserves violence.
Say declarer has xx, AKJxxx, Axx, Qx (a more reasonable hand for the bidding? Not a fan of South's 4H after the club overcall), then we need a spade switch right away, and that's what partner wanted you to do. (not that any switch but a spade really makes sense) Not sure what your agreements are though.
The return of the 4th club looking for the trump J in partner's hand? Not bad... except with A9xxx(x) declarer, when in, leading the heart Q seems to lose more often than it gains.
But I primarily blame East for putting West on tilt.
2) Agree with Phil, LHO thought any other lead was bad. I don't have anything to add here. Do you remember the auction, might that have influenced the lead so that a trump made a lot of sense?
3) Pass, if we get 300 it's gonna be great, if we get 100 it could be worse. If you expect partner to bid spades with a 4 card suit on this auction, especially pass, looks a lot more like X is points and no good bid at that point then.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.
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Bidding:
1♥ 2♣ 3♣ Pa
4♥ All Pass
Playing upside-down signals and leading the King from AK to show a singleton but the otherwise the Ace, West leads
the ♣King on which East plays the 7. ♣A on which East plays the
♣J and ♣T. Declarer ruffs and tosses a spade, letting the ♥Q to West's ♥K who then continues with another club...