[inquiry]

Dealer: West Vul: NS Scoring: IMP

♠ Q3 ♥ J75 ♦ Q7432 ♣ Q65 ♠ T642 ♥ A982 ♦ AT ♣ 872

West North East South  1♦    Pass  1NT   Pass  3♣    Pass  3♦    Pass  5♦    Pass  Pass  Pass

Partner starts the heart KING, you are SOUTH, the hand with two aces. Dummy is EAST, which is the hand to your right. You are playing UDCA signals. Plan your defense.

Ben

[flytoox]

IMP this is easy, overtake with Ace, return S T. More difficult is which trick to cash aftering taking dimanod ace. Return H or S? You cannt duck D for a signal. I think S is likely to win out.

Hongjun

[helium]

ace of hart and shift to spades, if declerer have 5-5 spade looser can disepear on clubs.

[gabika73]

I do not think you can gather enough info about declarer's distribution.

You can play declarer for
AJ x KJ9xx AKJxx
or
A xx KJ9xx AKJxx

If declarer is 6-5 in minors, he will not have a void in spades (partner would have lead a spade honor with that holding). So our second major suit trick will come only if declarer has a stiff K.

Should declarer have a stiff heart, there is no chance to set this contract without both a spade trick and a club trick: but a club trick will not go away: we will switch to a spade as soon as in with the trump ace.

As Hongjun said, we cannot afford the luxury of holding up the ace of trumps to get some signal from partner: we are dealt 3 clubs...

Also, our spade shift will get an attitude signal, not count. We're not going to be much smarter when in with the trump ace.

So we are left to guess whether partner passed the 1m opening with
K[J/9]xxx KQxxx x xx
or with
KJ9xxx KQxx x xx

Well, neither is too likely, unless we play really sound overcalls and sound 2suited overcalls (Michaels cue).
I guess I'd pass with the 1st hand much more often, so I will play partner for that hand.

Overtake king, lead a small spade, showing count (it cannot show attitude, seeing dummy's Qx). Partner might take the message and help me: he would signal encouragement only if thinks declarer has a loosing spade...

[inquiry]

Yes, I think we all found the right defense here (all the defenders missed it in the abalucy event). Full credit for overtaking and shift to a spade, but extra credit to those who worried about if a spade was cahsing or a second heart was cashing when winning the diamond ACE. Easy playing fourth best leads, where you can lead the spade TWO and give partner count.. the spade TEN is hardly useful with this regard.

The abalucy defenders all signalled the heart ACE and on a heart continutation 5♦ easily made.. the full hand was...

Scoring: IMP

West North East South

 1♦    Pass  1NT   Pass
 3♣    Pass  3♦    Pass
 5♦    Pass  Pass  Pass
 

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HK H5 H2 H3 <<---- heart 2 come on a mistake
H4 H7 HA D8
DK D5 D2 DA
S6 SA S5 S3
DJ D6 D3 DT

Ben

[flytoox]

Ben, question here. When I play spade and want to show pd i have even number spades. Should I play 2 or Ten or 6 from T642? From T62 you also play 2, dont you? Then how can pd figure out if you have h or s to cash? I think 6 is better than 2.

Hongjun

[gabika73]

Wow...
Is it only me to be surprised that declarer had only 8 minor cards?

[flytoox]

gabika73, on Oct 4 2004, 03:59 PM, said:

Wow...
Is it only me to be surprised that declarer had only 8 minor cards?

No, you are not alone.

[inquiry]

Well, I play 2nd/4th best leads... so here, I would lead second best from odd number and 4th best from even number. So from T62 I would lead the 6, from T6432 I would also lead teh six. From T642 I would lead the two, from T65432 I would lead the four. I would hope from the bidding and the spots, my partner can work out (within two cards) if I have three or five or four or six spades.

Ben

[Fluffy]

My partners usually overcall 1♥ with KQ10 fifth and a K, so I would not overtake ♥K, I am afraid he led form ♥Kx

[flytoox]

Fluffy, on Oct 4 2004, 05:14 PM, said:

My partners usually overcall 1♥ with KQ10 fifth and a K, so I would not overtake ♥K, I am afraid he led form ♥Kx

Given the bidding this is unlikely, thought not impossible with this declarer:)

[luke warm]

i tend to agree with fluffy, based on no overcall by partner