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Rub my nose in it Mea Culpa

#1 User is offline   nige1 

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Posted 2020-September-29, 04:23

Harry Smith's Lockdown Teams.
Last night I butchered this deal. South is declarer in 4 on K lead. Plan the play.
I ducked K but won the Q continuation, East showing an even number.
I continued KAQ, discarding a .
West followed twice but ruffed the third round low.
I ruffed West's J continuation, East discarding a (?)
What now?

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Posted 2020-September-29, 06:37

Your options:

Play A and another - this goes 2 down if E had KQx a he can cash a diamond on the end, not a big worry NV at teams, you're always down, but also fails if E has H10x as he takes the K and makes you ruff the diamond promoting his 10. When you see an honour drop from W, you can't cash 3 clubs and get back to dummy to lead up to the J so you can't have it all. For that reason I'd have started cashing clubs not diamonds which I think works better in the equvalent scenario.

The alternative is to play 3 rounds of clubs without cashing A.

It appears EW are 5-2/2-5 in the reds.

so if they are 3523/2254 playing on clubs before playing trumps will work, and when they stand up play Ax and you will make, ditto if you just play Ax

2524/3253 playing Ax fails, playing 3 clubs and then Ax will succeed if W started with Kx/Qx

4522/1255 you can only succeed if E's stiff is the 10 and then you pick it up incidentally by playing 3 top clubs.

So I cash 3 clubs next ditching my diamond if W follows or ruffs with an honour. In the latter case he is endplayed to either take the spade finesse for me or lead a heart so I can ruff in hand and do it myself.
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Posted 2020-September-29, 09:34

Maybe we should have switched to clubs to try and get a proper count in the minor suits before committing to one for the heart discard?
(-: Zel :-)

Happy New Year everyone!
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