[broze]

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Pickup partner so bidding not exactly clinical, but a pretty good slam. Plenty of chances, what's the best line?

Lead 10♠

If you win in hand and play a ♦ then North will

Spoiler

win either the Q or the A and play a trump back.

This post has been edited by broze: 2012-October-04, 17:21

[Fluffy]

I wonder where is the trace on the ruls where you can "make it feel"like ♦J lose hurted you, to induce RHO to cover ♦K later on.

I would play a diamond at trick 2 to the jack, win ♣Q, cash ♥A and play♦K from dummy ruffing if not covered, gonna cross ruff red tricks for a while hoping something good. After 4 ruffs I'll be in dummy with:

♠Kxx
♥-
♦J
♣x

♠Ax
♥Q
♣-
♣AK

time to cash some trumps and hope someone with 4 spades is squeezed.

EDIT: I can improve this by ussing ♣A as entry instead of a ruff earlier on protecting from diamond overruff if RHO has 6

[Antrax]

Why would N cover the ♦K? He sees the T and he knows you must be void since leading K makes no sense otherwise.

[Fluffy]

he might feel stupid if I had ♠Ax ♥Q10xx ♥xx ♣AKxxx

[Antrax]

I'm willing to feel stupid against someone who plays xx opposite KJTxx like that every day of the week, because he's clearly smarter than I am.

[broze]

Fluffy, on 2012-October-05, 04:02, said:

EDIT: I can improve this by ussing ♣A as entry instead of a ruff earlier on protecting from diamond overruff if RHO has 6

Nice EDIT! I just tried diamond ruffs (trying to ruff out the A♦. I didn't back my table presence enough to be sure that North had the Ace). I went down after the 2nd ♦ ruff since the full hand was:

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Never mind.