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[hv=d=e&v=b&s=sk92htdakqjtcak76]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] The bidding goes: RHO You LHO P 1S X 2S P P ?

After a few days of poll, I guessed the general choice between the 2 lines are not that far off. Here's the full hand:[hv=n=sxxhaqxdaqjcq10xxx&w=saxxxhxd9xxxxcxxx&e=sqjxxhkxxdkxxcjxx&s=skxxhj1098xxd10xcak]399|300|[/hv] Hence, line B will work... Needless to say, I took line A and failed. Most 'resulted' the hand and said they will opt for the other line. (At the table I thought choice was not even close: 2 finesses vs 3-3 break) No way to argue with success though :lol: Anyway, I was hoping there is a more detailed calculation on the chances of line B (Apart from 3-3 break, still Kx or singleton K H offside or 4 or more clubs with single trump) Don't think it will improve choices much though.. P.S: At other table, club lead.. so no play. 13 imps away. (Not sure what bidding was, probably forcing 1nt instead of 2C )

Whole bidding was: 1H 2C 2H 3H 4H As for Opponents, they are competent players, though not great experts but definately not your routine LOLs... :blink:

[hv=d=s&v=n&n=sxxhaqxdaqjcq10xxx&s=skxxhj1098xxd10xcak]133|200|Scoring: IMP Uninterfered, South arrives in 4H. How do you play on a 2 of D lead? Do your choice change if you think your LHO do not underlead Kings?[/hv]

There is only a very small chance I see. You have to hope West holds 10x of S and makes a mistake. Actual line: 7 of S to the 9 K D discard H H ruff K S to the ace (dropping West's 10) H ruff club ruff last trump D good. Well.. I guess I do not need to say what West mistake is :lol: P.S: Another possible chance is ruffing out a singleton club Ace but I will go for my line.

In my partnerships, Redouble means: " I have no strong preference for your minors but I do have a good Spade suit, lead S if they buy the contract"

Hi all, I would like to add that the line of play of play to 6S should be taken with more care. The general idea is the same, to make use of the long clubs, but care should be taken to take care of bad breaks.. In this case draw all trumps and take ruff finesse in clubs will end in disappointment if trumps break 3-0 and clubs 6-0 offside. hence, on a H lead( as given): Ace H, small club ruffed with ace. Q trump, 10 of trump to K trump small club ruff with J 6 of trump to 8 of trump Ace of club discard H Now you have QJ10x of clubs left, just give up a trick to the K ( you still have a small trump as entry and a trump in dummy to take care of the H) this line should be 100%. (On a D lead, it might be more difficult to handle but i think there should be a close to 100% line, ) Another point to note : When you see the dummy, focus on your task to make your contract, do not rue over missing a good grand slam... Plan your play to the best for your contract, after all you can never change your final contract :) I've seen many disasters happen when declarer was thinking about how the bidding should have gone and misplayed the hand

Nice Problem here.. My line: (Probably nowhere near the best) Ace D Takes K H Ace H H ruff. * D Ruff H ruff D ruff ace club last heart gd discard D. Only scope for problem is when H gets over ruffed (either in front or behind) with a singleton honor and you lose 2 more trumps at the end Not sure if it is better to draw ace club at the beginning... You might lose out when H 4-2 gets overruff and defender draw another trump. You might have to fall back on S finesse then. I rather hope that the man with short H is NOT with a singleton honor in trumps :blink:

I am inclined to place declarer with AQJxxx x KQxx xx He looked at the 10 S suspiciously because if it was a true card he can ruff the fourth D in dummy. Decided against it he drew one more of trumps. Now, if he sees all cards he can make 11 tricks by a club finesse and double squeeze. However, I think it is hard to put him offtrack, since you are a passed hand and showed up with 8 HCP. You probably dun figure to have the club K. If you can somehow convince him you have the King club, declarer could well go wrong by attempting to throw in you with the fourth D to lead into his AQ C. So, firstly I would take hold up the S K now. (unlikely you won't get it at the end) Just to see how declarer plays next. I think he would play a D back which will clarify the situation for me. If declarer concedes the S to me i will return a passive D and throw 1D and a SMALL club on the last 2 S.

You are South at Imps:[hv=d=s&v=b&n=s2hk54d765cak8765&s=s943haq876dkqj92c]133|200|Scoring: IMP West leads Ace S against your 4H and switches to a club[/hv] 10 tricks are easy if both red suits break well. Can you stand bad breaks in both suits? If not, how do you time your play so as to guard against bad breaks in the red suits? Thanks to all replies in advance :)

Thanks all for replying... I guess the general consensus is that 2D rebidding 3D is acceptable. Of course, there are many other interesting considerations with other bids. Incidentally, our agreement is that 2D is forcing but does not promise a rebid. I see there are many styles around and i think it will take another thread to find out which way of "positive freebids" are best and yet another on "Positve against Negative Freebids" For all the posters.. Here is the complete hand: [hv=n=saq98xha10xxdxxcaj&w=skxxxxhxxxdjxxcxx&e=sjxhxxxdkqckqxxxx&s=s10hkqjda9xxxxc109x]399|300|[/hv] I chose to Dbl directly (wrongly as it seems). We missed 3NT cold but cannot find an educated way to get there. It seems to me going by this forum's discussion, 4H is more likely a game to be reached. Thanks all again :)

Imps, all Vul You hold : ♠10 ♥KQJ ♦A9xxxx ♣109x Partner opens 1S and RHO overcalls 2C. You play Negative dbls and Forcing Free bids with 2/1 GF. What is your bid here? Your next bid if Parter respond 2H to your initial action? Please explain and Thanks in advance ;)

Hi all.. I am new to this forum, so forgive me if I am completely on the wrong track or I made suggestions at the wrong place... I think there might be a compromise to this conflict. There could be a different type of tourney. ( maybe call it semiclocked ) Where the tables who finish first (maybe the first 5 tables that finish) will change first for the next round. The next 5 tables completed will change when they're done and so on... The others will play on until the std time (maybe 16 mins a rd) finishes. Then all those who are still playing will change for the next round. I think in this way, the fast (playing faster than the stipulated time) will play continously and can finish soon. On the other hand, the tourney will not take longer than expected to end. (easier time for the players, especially those caught in the slow 'batch' and cannot recover). Another idea may be to have rd changes at up at one min intervals starting from 12th min (arbitary assuming 2 bds per rd) until a limit of maybe 18/19? this works if there are sufficient tables done within the 1 min interval. Maybe this is just some rubbish thinking and not feasible :) Just ignore it then

I voted for 75% East. West has some fault for not bidding 4S straight over dbl, the Kings look gd and 4S is the most likely game. ( Not 3NT, missing too many aces, p may not give yo9u AK Spades, at least not mine) You have a 9/10 card fit, so likely opps has a big fit somewhere and some values too.. so not worth going for blood at unfav vul :) Having said that, i think East is at fault for passing the forcing pass by his partner. West could have a different hand suitable for a killing , it's prob also one of the cardinal sins to pass partner's forcing bids :)

East had the A ♣ .. was an Abalucy game hand i think.

I think the general consensus here is for a passive return. This hand was actually set during one of our training session and meant as a declarer's play problem. However at 3 tables, none found the defence to test declarer at all. Only a H return will give declarer any problem. Another school of thought was to play declarer for something like AKQxx Q Kxx Axxx. Now, a D switch is vital. Interestingly no-one voted for the "lead up to weakness" club :) This is declarer's hand: Try it as a play problem with Ace H continuation. (Warning: Not so hard play problem) [hv=d=e&v=n&n=sj1093h876da43c842&s=sak874hqdkq7caj105]133|200|Scoring: IMP Play 4S on Heart to K and Ace Heart continuation[/hv]

Dealer: South Vul: Both Scoring: IMP ♠ J1093 ♥ 876 ♦ A43 ♣ 842 ♠ 2 ♥ AKJ1092 ♦ J62 ♣ K93 Bidding : S W N E 1H X 2H* P 3H 3S P 4S AP 2H shows a garbage raise to 2H as 2D is a constructive raise Lead 3 of ♥ to your K and declarer drops the Q. Your return and why?

I would play differently. From the slight pause of West, I think it is more likely he has 6 S and 4 H, considering to preempt with 4 card major. Hence I would cash Ace D play small D towards the Q. I think the differences in handling the D suit are very small, all near 75%. (maybe 4-0 breaks matter) :huh:

Maybe I'm missing something here... What i meant was if you delay the club finesse, you get an extra chance. If West started with the King, you still pitch your H loser on the club and lose only 2 D, 1C.

After reading the replies, I think most get the general idea that you need to endplay East if he has AJ10 or find Ax with West. It is interesting to note that there is another chance, playing for East to hold Kx in clubs. So you might play: Win Ace club, draw trumps (hoping to get good guess) then small club towards the Q. When you put up the Q and loses to the K, East might be endplayed if he held something like xxx Kxxxx Axx Kx Does this represent an extra chance without affecting your original hopes? Thanks for responding :)

First look at it: First jumbled thoughts: WE have 2S, 4C ,3D,1H. I am inclined to place East with the Q H or a Singleton A. If East has Qxx(x) easy make on a club H squeeze. Now, problem is to tackle East with Qx H, not the club Heart squeeze ( take all D end in dummy) does not really work. This one has an easy solution, play a club to dummy(find the break) play a small H, if East follows Q, you're home. If East follows small, finessse 10 and home again.(On a squeeze if neccessary) Now, let's see if we can cope with East having a singleton Ace Heart. He'll show out at trick 5. Take the K and we can place East with a (2-1-4-6 hand with fair confidence, looking at the S play to first 2 tricks). Now, no matter what I try I cannot get home. Looking back, nothing i do at trick 4 will help. so we cannot make if East is 2-1-4-6. If East has singleton Ace H , i think there is no way to make your contract. So, after some sorting out: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final play: Win Spade Ace, play club to Ace. ( West shows out) Small H from dummy. If East follows small, play the 10. claiming on a squeeze. If East follows Q, you have 12 tricks. It East shows out, give up. :)

[hv=d=s&v=e&n=sk863hq97dq43caq6&s=saj1054ha3dk976c87]133|200|Scoring: IMP West Leads the J ♣ (standard leads) against your 4♠. Rate your chances. Bidding as requested: 1S 2NT 4S [/hv]

On paper, I think the chances of a D void is least. However at the table, I think a very possible line (What I would play) would be to ruff high with the Ace of Hearts and draw trumps. Firstly, this protects against a 11 card suit with West (more than 30% chance after a Vulnerable 6S opening) Secondly, even if you are unfortunate to find a 5-0 trump break, you still have lots of residual chance of a trump coup. In fact, I have not really worked it out but I bet Ben and others can, I propose that if you can work out the remaining distribution of the cards, you can always make by cashing the minors tin the correct order. I suppose this goes in hand with leaving your options open and not putting your eggs in one basket. P.S: I'm sure this reasoning is flawed someway cos I'm no expert :huh:

I guess from the poll, everyone goes for the legitimate S finesse with some extra chance. At the table, East has a hand like: [hv=s=skxxhq10xxxxdxckjx]133|100|[/hv] So, if you take the Spade finesse, he will hold up the K, then you when you cross over with a H to finesse again, it doesn't really take a genius to switch to a club now. It was suggested that better play would be to lead Spades off dummy. even if S King is with West, it is difficult to switch to a club , especially on the bidding. This arguement sounds plausible, I am interested to know, how much chance would the experts be willing to give up and rely on a likely defensive mistake? (Giving up the legitimate Spade finesse and hope West do not find the killing switch) A side pt: which H is better to from hand when you come back for the second S finesse to conceal your High cards as much as possible.

♣ [hv=d=s&v=n&n=saqj10hxxxdaj10xcqx&s=sxxhakj9dkxxc7xxx]133|200|Scoring: IMP Bidding: 1♣ 1♠ 1 NT 3NT West leads a small D and dummy's 10 hold the trick. What would be your line? [/hv]