[Winstonm]

The bidding:
S W N E
P P 1CL P
1SP P 2CL P
2NT P 3NT P
P P

Playing in the Flight A Knockouts at the Tulsa Regional, you are up against the present Crane Trophy leader on your right.

You decide on a low diamond lead. Partner shows his merit and contributes the King which declarer wins with the Ace. Declarer now leads a club towards dummy, which you of course duck. The Jack wins in dummy and declarer continues with the King of clubs, partner contributing the 3 of spades (Upside down Count and Attitude.) You win the Ace.

What do you do now?
How do you play to stop 3N?
Advanced may want to hide their answers

Scoring: IMP

Thanks, Fluffy. This is the actual hand.

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[mike777]

Winstonm, on Aug 19 2005, 12:05 AM, said:

The bidding:
S  W  N  E
P  P  1CL P
1SP P 2CL P
2NT P 3NT P
P P

Playing in the Flight A Knockouts at the Tulsa Regional, you are up against the present Crane Trophy leader on your right. 

You decide on a low diamond lead.  Partner shows his merit and contributes the King which declarer wins with the Ace.  Declarer now leads a club towards dummy, which you of course duck.  The Jack wins in dummy and declarer continues with the King of clubs, partner contributing the 4 of spades (Upside down Count and Attitude.)  You win the Ace.

What do you do now?
How do you play to stop 3N?
Advanced may want to hide their answers.

Wow you flight A players are great, you do not even look or know your hands, wow let alone care what dummy looks like, wow!.

[ArcLight]

Partner contributed the 4 of Spades? Thats in YOUR hand!
I think you mean a "low Spade" lets call it th 3.

If the 4 of Spades implies a good Spade holding headed by the A I'd lead the Spade 9, then pard can lead back a diamond through declarer, allowing me to make my 8 and run diamonds.



I wouldnt be surprised if the Diamonds can run right now as I think declarer has 3 diamonds, and thus I can run the Diamonds from the top (I hope pard unblocks if they have the 9!)

You could even try playing the 10 of Dimonds, getting a count signal from pard. If he has an even number its 4, run the diamonds.
If odd, then declarer has 4 and lead a spade, get the diamond lead through declarer.

This will not work if pard has 2 diamonds, but then declarer is probably 5-1-5-2 and would probably not bid like he did.

[Winstonm]

The auction was non-forcing so declarer is pretty well marked with an 11 count invitational hand.

So far he has shown up with the A of diamonds and nothing in clubs. What are his missing 7 points and why did he grab the first diamond?

It is obvious that he won the first diamond because he has diamonds double stopped, hence the A98x.

How many trick does he have? He can make 4 in clubs, 1 in diamonds, and a side A, K, A, K for 9. So if we are going to come to 5 tricks, we have to do it before the clubs are established for 4 - while we still have the club 10 entry.

What happens, knowing that declarer has 2 diamond tricks coming, if we concede that second diamond right now by leading a low diamond? Let's see, 2 clubs, 2 diamonds, A, K, A, K....hmmm seems to add to only 8 tricks.

Winston

[Fluffy]

Dear winstom, you should edit the deal, ♦8 and ♠4 are both in our hands

[Al_U_Card]

Pard has about 9 hcp, of which 3 were the DK. Since pard has made a signal, you should honor it with a card that says "don't return this suit, just go back to my D pls" and set the contract.