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Stick to your guns? Or be a genius?
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Posted 2010-October-01, 19:59
Lead?
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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Posted 2010-October-01, 21:20
5♥
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the Freman, Chani from the move "Dune"
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
George Bernard Shaw
the Freman, Chani from the move "Dune"
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
George Bernard Shaw
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Posted 2010-October-01, 21:40
In these situations we should hope diamonds aren't running (else our chances to beat this are bad), so main goal is to kill dummy's potential side entry with a secondary goal of trying not to give up tricks. A heart lead accomplishes neither of these goals and is basically just trying to set up tricks, which I think is not our best way to beat this.
The club ace is the best way to try to kill dummy's entry (we can continue or switch after looking), but is also the most likely to blow a trick. The spade looks safer but I think needs way too much. Overall even though it looks really weird and I don't expect a lot of support (maybe because it doesn't deserve any) I like the club ace lead.
The club ace is the best way to try to kill dummy's entry (we can continue or switch after looking), but is also the most likely to blow a trick. The spade looks safer but I think needs way too much. Overall even though it looks really weird and I don't expect a lot of support (maybe because it doesn't deserve any) I like the club ace lead.
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Posted 2010-October-01, 23:01
i think the club ace is clear. you can score 2 ways. we can be running the suit or we can knock off dummy's entry if the diamonds aren't running, though i do expect the diamonds to be pretty good for them.
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Posted 2010-October-01, 23:13
I disagree that Roger doesn't deserve any support, since I agree with the ♣A lead.
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Posted 2010-October-04, 02:03
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Posted 2010-October-06, 02:47
Hearts, ... we will be doing fine, if we find p with the jack of hearts.
He wont have a lot, but he can hold this.
Everything else is too speculative.
With kind regards
Marlowe
He wont have a lot, but he can hold this.
Everything else is too speculative.
With kind regards
Marlowe
With kind regards
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
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Posted 2010-October-06, 18:40
heart K
there is no guarantee that dia is the opps running suit it could easily be clubs and a club lead might be giving up the ship. A heart lead holds the most promise but a low heart might sadly lose a trick to stiff J or T in dummy. The heart K will at least smother any single honor in dummy (much more likely there than in p hand) and
allow us to contine with a small heart (assuming we hold the trick and it still seems like a good idea) with little or no loss in tempo. It is indeed possible to construct
a small number of cases where leading the K can limit our heart winners but they are far fewer than the number of cases opps can score 5c 2h and 2d after a low heart lead.
there is no guarantee that dia is the opps running suit it could easily be clubs and a club lead might be giving up the ship. A heart lead holds the most promise but a low heart might sadly lose a trick to stiff J or T in dummy. The heart K will at least smother any single honor in dummy (much more likely there than in p hand) and
allow us to contine with a small heart (assuming we hold the trick and it still seems like a good idea) with little or no loss in tempo. It is indeed possible to construct
a small number of cases where leading the K can limit our heart winners but they are far fewer than the number of cases opps can score 5c 2h and 2d after a low heart lead.
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Posted 2010-October-06, 20:52
Would lead a heart, but would lead fifth rather than fourth, since I don't really expect it to matter for partner, and might cause declarer to play his ace on the wrong trick.
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