[jonottawa]

Scoring: IMP

P-P-1♣-P
1♠-P-2NT-P
3NT-Float

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♥5 Lead

(Opps are random BBO 'experts')

Auction ok? Is there a clearly best line?

[whereagles]

Think I've seen this before, but...

If the lead is a 4th best, it seems you can afford to play 3 rounds of clubs and then setup a spade. If all goes well, opps make 2 hearts, 1 spade, 1 club.

[Fluffy]

yo should recount your tricks Nuno, if clubs are right you are home.

But if they are not then you need clubs

best line IMO is to win ♥K and play ♠Q before going into clubs.

It is true that RHO might destroy our comunications by putting ♠K on, but I really doubt it. If ♠Q holds switch to clubs. If it doesn't we need 5 club tricks so forget about spades.

[DWM]

With six top tricks we need 3 more.

Option 1, 3 spades, 2 hearts, 2 diamonds and 2 clubs.
Option 2, 1 spade, 2 hearts, 1 diamond, 4 clubs + one more spade or diamond.

With 5♥ being 4th best we know there are 2 heart losers so can afford to lose two more tricks.

East is the dangerous person to be on lead for diamonds and spades.

Option 1 needs the K of ♠+♦ in east nearly 25%
Option 2 needs a 3-3 split in clubs, however, clearing hearts first will help chances.

I would play two rounds of hearts then play a club from north and cover easts card. Once West is on lead he can take his two hearts then any lead will help out as a spade or a diamond lead will take away the guess for one of the kings making option 1 closer to 50-50, if a spades is lead I can test clubs before playing on diamonds. If a club is returned I should make 4 clubs.

[pooltuna]

DWM, on Dec 23 2009, 04:13 AM, said:

With six top tricks we need 3 more.

Option 1, 3 spades, 2 hearts, 2 diamonds and 2 clubs.
Option 2, 1 spade, 2 hearts, 1 diamond, 4 clubs + one more spade or diamond.

With 5♥ being 4th best we know there are 2 heart losers so can afford to lose two more tricks.

East is the dangerous person to be on lead for diamonds and spades.

Option 1 needs the K of ♠+♦ in east nearly 25%
Option 2 needs a 3-3 split in clubs, however, clearing hearts first will help chances.

I would play two rounds of hearts then play a club from north and cover easts card. Once West is on lead he can take his two hearts then any lead will help out as a spade or a diamond lead will take away the guess for one of the kings making option 1 closer to 50-50, if a spades is lead I can test clubs before playing on diamonds. If a club is returned I should make 4 clubs.

club suit is 6 cards so you get 5 tricks with all 3-3 splits and 18 of the 30 4-2 splits. For the remaining 12 you need to plan the hand so you can take the ♠ finesse when you know you need it planning on giving up 2♥ and 2♣ in the process.

[jonottawa]

Guess this wasn't all that interesting.

RHO played the T at trick 1 and I decided to duck (I didn't think he was up to finding the ♦ switch, particularly since the auction hadn't been particularly informative.) He continued with the ♥Q and I won in dummy.

Have I done anything atrocious/bad/sub-optimal yet?

What now?

[Fluffy]

if ♥5 is 4th best ducking the heart doesn't seem to help, and risks a diamond switch. Maybe there is a squeeze line in the end where you are rectifying the count for but I am unable to think of it.

I would still run ♠Q

[jonottawa]

Sorry, the more I think about this the more I wish I hadn't posted it. It was just a frustrating hand and I was hoping I'd overlooked something glaringly obvious.

I didn't really expect ducking the ♥ to gain, but I completely overlooked the possibility that I might be unblocking the suit for the opponents.

It was a little ironic that I expected LHO to have 4 ♥, but by guarding against the somewhat remote possibility that he had 5 ♥, which he indeed have, I went down in a contract that makes easily if I win the first ♥. (And can still make double-dummy after ducking the first ♥, but good luck finding that line at the table.)

Scoring: IMP

P-P-1C-P
1S-P-2N-P
3N-Float

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