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What do you play from dummy?
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Posted 2011-July-04, 00:31
You are south in 6H, playing IMPS.
The play so far:
What do you play from dummy?
Adv/+ please refrain from posting early (unless posting to point out flaws etc).
The play so far:
What do you play from dummy?
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Posted 2011-July-04, 08:57
I'm playing the queen. It appears that West is 5-5 in the blacks. Why would he discard clubs and not spades? With Jxxxx it would seem to be a lot more attractive to discard spades. If he had Kxxxx then he's probably feeling comfortable coming down to Kxx. The other thing that you might like to know is what the defenses carding is. If the ♣2 was encouraging clubs then it's pretty good evidence to play West for the king.
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Posted 2011-July-04, 11:00
G_R__E_G, on 2011-July-04, 08:57, said:
I'm playing the queen. It appears that West is 5-5 in the blacks. Why would he discard clubs and not spades? With Jxxxx it would seem to be a lot more attractive to discard spades. If he had Kxxxx then he's probably feeling comfortable coming down to Kxx. The other thing that you might like to know is what the defenses carding is. If the ♣2 was encouraging clubs then it's pretty good evidence to play West for the king.
Do the club discards really matter?
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Posted 2011-July-04, 11:16
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Cute problem, hope I think of that at the table next time.
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Posted 2011-July-04, 11:33
of course West can win the ♠ exit and break ♣ even with the K 
I am trying to remember the name of this coup where one error induces a declarer misplay. Getting old is a b----
I am trying to remember the name of this coup where one error induces a declarer misplay. Getting old is a b----
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Posted 2011-July-04, 11:37
pooltuna, on 2011-July-04, 11:33, said:
of course West can win the ♠ exit and break ♣ even with the K I am trying to remember the name of this coup where one error induces a declarer misplay. Getting old is a b----
I am trying to remember the name of this coup where one error induces a declarer misplay. Getting old is a b----The word you are looking for is "grosvenor" (probably spelled wrong).
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Posted 2011-July-04, 14:25
it's incredibly hard to grosvenor this. If LHO has the jack of clubs, whatever we do doesn't matter. When he doesn't have the jack, gambling on partner to have the Jack is a huge position to take. For all he knows, declarer might have the jack and was just taking an extra chance.
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Posted 2011-July-04, 14:35
tC I am going to assume the opp did not allow themselves to be endplayed.
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Posted 2011-July-05, 01:34
CT against competent opponents.
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Posted 2011-July-05, 12:27
Nice problem.
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.
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Posted 2011-July-06, 04:47
This is a good theme, the suit is only legit frozen if they have fluid entries if LHO has the J and RHO has the K, so we should be aware of that. This comes up a lot.
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