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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2010-June-25, 06:31

Q98xxx
AKQJ8
K
x

Ax
T9xx
AQxx
AJx

1N from south.

1N-2N-3D*-p
3H-p-4C-p
4D-p-4N-p
0/3-p-6H-

in an outrageous act involving massive UI, RHO bids 7C then changes her mind and passes (vulnerability is equal, you see). everybody laughs and LHO leads a small trump.

2N showed both minors and 3D showed spades at least initially.
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Posted 2010-June-25, 06:51

I'm afraid I'll play a spade to my Ace. And another spade if I win that. I'll try ruffing 2 spades with ♥T9. If the ♠A is ruffed I'll wait for the right answer.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2010-June-25, 07:40

Hanoi5, on Jun 25 2010, 07:51 AM, said:

I'm afraid I'll play a spade to my Ace. And another spade if I win that. I'll try ruffing 2 spades with ♥T9. If the ♠A is ruffed I'll wait for the right answer.

My gut reaction as well. But not sure that playing another trump is hopeless if declarer's lho also has a stiff K,J, or T of ♠s. Of course any 3-2 ♠ break works. So apparently we need to weigh the odds of 0-2-(56) vs x-1-(56) where x=K,J,T
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Posted 2010-June-25, 10:20

I think it was John Lowenthal who was famous for saying that if you want a defensive ruff....lead trumps.

But in real life, few players seem to adopt that strategy, so I would not expect LHO to be void in spades. And playing a second trump before tackling spades risks LHO being 1=1 in the majors, and now rho gets to lead a third round of trump when he wins the first spade.

I win the trump in dummy, and play a spade to the Ace. If this draws any of the 10/J/or K, then I pull trump and concede a spade and I can establish a spade in dummy easily enough by way, eventually, of a ruffing finesse (or the Q is good when the K appears).

If no big spade appears, then I lead low and cover whatever spade LHO plays...if he plays none, then I duck, and hope to ruff 2 spades with the 109 of hearts, using the diamond K as one entry to dummy and clubs as the other(s).
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Posted 2010-June-25, 10:29

For some reason I thought we were in 7♥ and I couldn't figure out why it was a play problem.
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Posted 2010-June-26, 20:17

sorry everyone, LHO has 0-2 in the majors :P

I just posted this to prove how awesome I was.
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