[pork rind]

in a team match white vs white RHO opens 1h, you bid 1s, lho bids 4h. part x, rho xx,
i bid 6c.

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p p p

in the play lho leads the j of spades.
i led a club to the ace and rho drops the king.

[paulhar]

WAS HIDDEN, NOW ISN'T:
If the opponents are playing standard leads, I lead the king of hearts. When East covers, I ruff, and play queen and a club, putting LHO on play. He has to put me in dummy, or lead a spade making my hand good. If he puts me in dummy, I cash the red tricks, throwing three small spades, and lead a spade to the ten, ready to congratulate LHO on a great lead if he held S-QJ(x).

If the king of hearts is allowed to hold, I discard a spade, discard two more spades on the diamonds, and finesse the spade ten. I think I need to play this way if spades are 4-1 because if I retain any small spades, West can ruff the ten of spades and return the jack of clubs, leaving you with a spade loser.

If the lead could conventionally be from S-QJx, I think I still play the same way, because (1) leading spades looks bad on this auction, and (2) most of the opening bids East could be dealt that include a singleton king of clubs also include the queen of spades.

[pclayton]

I played the same as Paul. Cute hand.

[luke warm]

i'm confused, i must have had a worse day at work than i thought... if you play that way, what do you do when lho leads the ♥A?

i think i'd lead my top diamonds, discarding.. then finesse a spade, then trump a spade, then trump a heart *then* play clubs

if they're playing journalist leads, i'm down

[pclayton]

Jimmy: righty is marked with the AH. Try it again.

[luke warm]

i meant, if lho leads a heart to the ace... i'm still confused

[luke warm]

argh, i just saw what happened.. i missed a whole line of paul's post... hidden text too tough for me tonite

[paulhar]

I just unhid it, so nobody should be confused about Jimmy's post - mine was hidden at one time.