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#1 User is offline   jillybean 

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Posted 2012-May-13, 00:07



You lead your stiff ♦

5♦ K♦ A♦ 3♦
7♦ 4♦ 8♠ 2♦

What now?
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Posted 2012-May-13, 09:47

Seems obvious to play a club. Partner signalled for a club. If partner has the stiff K of spades, a club trick might need to be developed now to prevent declarer just cashing the diamonds.

Am honestly struggling to find a layout where a heart or a spade can be right.
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Posted 2012-May-13, 09:53

If declarer has AKxxx of spades, he can just ruff 2 heart losers and throw the remaining rubbish on the diamonds, even if partner has the CK (as indicated by his D7).

So it seems we have to hope partner has the SA or SK. If he has the SA we can potentially beat it by playing a low trump. Partner returns a diamond and we get a ruff or trump promotion.

However, I'm not sure there's a need to hurry. If we take partner's D7 as a genuine suit preference signal, he has the CK, so we just play a club. If partner does have SA then, since declarer can't run the diamonds without drawing trumps, we win as above. If partner has SK, after SA - heart ruff - DQ we ruff in with the SQ and play clubs.

I always miss something though...

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Posted 2012-May-14, 02:13

I agree with the above comments. A club looks right, and partner signalled for clubs.

Also, I would certainly have led a top heart, but I suspect that would not beat the contract.

Also, I would have overcalled 2H.
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Posted 2012-May-14, 07:38



5♦ K♦ A♦ 3♦
7♦ 4♦ 8♠ 2♦
9♠ 2♠ A♠ 3♠
10♦ 9♦ Q♠
I thought that a ♣ couldn't be right, declarer would win high, pull trump and run the diamonds. I imagined the only way we were setting this was for partner to have the ♠A and able to give me another ♦ ruff.
In hindsight the trick is coming to me naturally but I wasn't smart enough to work that out at the table.
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