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You are East and are defending 4H played by South.
Your partner leads the ♠J.
What is your plan?
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Posted 2011-December-04, 03:46
You are East and are defending 4H played by South.
Your partner leads the ♠J.
What is your plan?
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Posted 2011-December-05, 14:25
No replies. Opening the problem for adv/experts
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Posted 2011-December-05, 14:44
kgr, on 2011-December-04, 03:46, said:
You are East and are defending 4H played by South.
Your partner leads the ♠J.
What is your plan?
OK, I'll bite. (Note: I am definitely an intermediate player)
Win the ♠A and follow it with the ♠K, showing a doubleton. Then underlead in diamonds for a third round of spades from partner. Ruff high to promote partner's ♥Txx.
If declarer has a stiff spade or diamond void, this is not going to work so well. But the auction seems to be consistent with partner having 5341 and declarer having 2524. No, if declarer had 4 clubs they would be in a club contract. Partner must be 5332 and declarer 2533.
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Posted 2011-December-05, 21:37
If partner is 6232 and declarer is 1633, I think you would want to take the ace of spades and lead ace of diamonds and then jack of diamonds to shorten board. Such that if partner has the ace or king of hearts he can bury the queen and promote your jack for the setting trick.
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Posted 2011-December-06, 00:21
dwar0123, on 2011-December-05, 21:37, said:
If partner is 6232 and declarer is 1633, I think you would want to take the ace of spades and lead ace of diamonds and then jack of diamonds to shorten board. Such that if partner has the ace or king of hearts he can bury the queen and promote your jack for the setting trick.
Agree with this. The suggested distribution is consistant with the auction. To have any hope P will need a high trump and the ♦K or ♦Q.
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Posted 2011-December-06, 02:42
The play suggested by Coelacanth was the correct in on the actual hand.
Declare had:
xx
AKxxx
Qx
Qxxx
I think this is more likely after the bidding:
- Declarer did bid 3C and not 3H, so he probably has no 6cH.
- 3S was searching for a D-stop to play 3NT. Declarer passed 3SX to keep 3NT open as a possibility. So it seems that declarer has a half D-stop.
Remark: This was played behind screens and I was South:
- I wasn't really happy with my 3C bid. I felt that I was really max for that.
- When West bid 4D and the tray was moved to other side of the screen, I planned to bid 4H when it comes back. But by the time it did come back I did bid 5C iso 4H (I don't know why: it seems that I forgot to bid 4H or maybe I changed my idea somehow
). 5C was DBLed by East and did go -1. 4H would have a good chance.
Declare had:
xx
AKxxx
Qx
Qxxx
I think this is more likely after the bidding:
- Declarer did bid 3C and not 3H, so he probably has no 6cH.
- 3S was searching for a D-stop to play 3NT. Declarer passed 3SX to keep 3NT open as a possibility. So it seems that declarer has a half D-stop.
Remark: This was played behind screens and I was South:
- I wasn't really happy with my 3C bid. I felt that I was really max for that.
- When West bid 4D and the tray was moved to other side of the screen, I planned to bid 4H when it comes back. But by the time it did come back I did bid 5C iso 4H (I don't know why: it seems that I forgot to bid 4H or maybe I changed my idea somehow
). 5C was DBLed by East and did go -1. 4H would have a good chance.
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