[rduran1216]

against hampson and greco

playing udca, basic agreements otherwise, no smith

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you lead the spade 5, ♦3, ♠K, A
♣x,3,K,x
♣Q,10,x,A
♠6,♦x,♠8,10
♥x,A,x,x
♠Q,♣x,♠2,4
♦A,x,2,7

Now?

comments on the defense so far?

[rhm]

rduran1216, on 2012-November-26, 00:40, said:

against hampson and greco

playing udca, basic agreements otherwise, no smith

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you lead the spade 5, ♦3, ♠K, A
♣x,3,K,x
♣Q,10,x,A
♠6,♦x,♠8,10
♥x,A,x,x
♠Q,♣x,♠2,4
♦A,x,2,7

Now?

comments on the defense so far?

What is left except playing partner for the diamond king?
Declarer is marked with 11-13 HP balanced and from dummy's club discard with the heart queen.
You simply must hope that declarer has ♠AJT4, ♥QJxx ♦QJT ♣xx

I have a minor quibble with the defense and a big one with the bidding.
Not cashing the spade queen will take it 2 down if partner has the diamond king, but would be a disaster if partner has six spades and no diamond king.
However, partner would not have introduced a 4 card diamond suit headed by the queen with six spades to the king.
Since 4♠ makes if partner has the diamond king, two down is important. An overtrick in 3NT doubled is not.

I would have super accepted, despite the low high card point. This hand got huge after the transfer and even if partner is broke 3♠ is more likely to create problems for them than for us.
As the bidding continued doubling 3NT is a big error in judgment. 4♠ stands out.

Rainer Herrmann

[Fluffy]

All of my bids seem to be artificial, can you explain them?

I don't understand why I would cash ♠Q to kill my ♠7. Playing a diamond now its obvious, partner played ♦2.

[Phil]

I stopped reading when I overcalled 1N with 4522 and a 14.

[Phil]

OK reading further, I would expect one of the following:

- That we play some sort of Smith (I see we don't).
- Since we don't play Smith, count in clubs is irrelevant, and suit preference applies.

I probably would have stopped the problem when I won the ♣A. Partner's club carding suggests something in diamonds, and definitely not the ♠J, but its not clear to me that we need to start banging down our winners, since declarer only has 7 tricks in.

Even better, its a more interesting problem if I win the ♣A immediately and fire back a club. I'm not suggesting this is correct, but it might be. Declarer's hand looks like its going to be obliterated on the run of the clubs.

[rduran1216]

full hand

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[PhilKing]

I wondered about that possibility, but obviously dismissed it when partner played the ♦2.

Thank you partner!

[Phil]

Wow I like my club back even better!

[PhilKing]

Phil, on 2012-November-27, 12:28, said:

Wow I like my club back even better!

That lets it through when partner has KT9xx in spades.

[Phil]

PhilKing, on 2012-November-27, 12:30, said:

That lets it through when partner has KT9xx in spades.

Yeah, true. And declarer doesn't need to pummel his hand with the heart re-entry.