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Posted 2019-January-04, 06:21



MP Pairs - club night against reasonable opps.
Lead King of Spades
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Posted 2019-January-04, 08:44


TramTicket writes "MP Pairs - club night against reasonable opps. Lead King of Spades"
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An unimaginative line, to get the ball rolling...
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Posted 2019-January-04, 09:18

 nige1, on 2019-January-04, 08:44, said:


TramTicket writes "MP Pairs - club night against reasonable opps. Lead King of Spades"
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An unimaginative line, to get the ball rolling...
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Un-imagination is usually the right way to play a contract, too :) I can't see any line that is better except if you peek at your opponent's cards, and we all know that's not allowed :(
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Posted 2019-January-04, 11:59

 nige1, on 2019-January-04, 08:44, said:

An unimaginative line, to get the ball rolling...
Win A. cash A, ruff a , lead a .
If North wins A and gives South a ruff, on a good day, South might be endplayed.
For example, if South exits with a , you can try T.


Nige1's unimaginative line showed more imagination than me at the table. The full hand was:



At the table I couldn't think of a way of avoiding the ruff, so played for South to hold a singleton trump. My worry was that if North holds AXX I couldn't afford to use the diamond entry prematurely: say I played A and ruff a diamond then lead a trump ... do I finesse the J immediately (and maybe lose to a singleton J) or play the Q but lose out to AJX since there is unlikely to be a second entry to dummy. The result was that I played the trump Q, losing to the ace, suffered Q and a spade ruff, with South having a safe exit.

So I think it comes down to either:
(1) Playing for trumps 2-2 and south being end-played; or
(2) Same line but if North ducks the A, switch assumption to and play North for AJX and finesse immediately; or
(3) Playing for trumps 3-1 from the start and delay playing diamonds.

But thoughts welcome ...
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Posted 2019-January-04, 17:28

The bidding is obviously weird - either North failed to raise with 4-card support, or South has 7 diamonds yet didn't open a preempt. The former seems impossible, and maybe the latter suggests 7222? Impossible to say without knowing your opponents.

Short version - if opponents have a 10-card fit and only compete to the 2-level, play for suits to break...
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