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Thanks - much appreciate the bidding review. Pickup game last night with some good opps. Will review this some more. We certainly had no complex bidding tools available to us. I just wanted to get to game - no invite. Thought my hand well worth it - since I bid 5S. That all may be wrong, and I certainly take my lumps. I have come around to the third line (which I erroneously thought was blocked). Here is the decisions as I see it. Cards: KJ109 Play low Play low West East Play Q Duck Take Ace, return club KJ10 9 W W L KJ9 10 W L L K109 J W L L J109 K L W W 9 KJ10 L L W 10 KJ9 L L W J K109 L W W K J109 W W W 4 Wins 4 wins 5 wins At the table I was concentrating on 4 clubs and a diamond, losing 2 clubs, while 3 diamonds and 2 clubs is good, losing 1 club and 1 diamond. It was a fun hand- thanks for taking the time.

I had this hand yesterday and we ended in 5 spades and I feel like I missed something? [hv=pc=n&s=sakqt95hdaqt2cq32&w=s84hat932dk9754cj&n=s62hq4dj63ca87654&e=sj73hkj8765d8ckt9&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=1sp1n(6-9)2h4s5hpp5sppp]399|300[/hv] The ♥ ace was led and ruffed. Three rounds of ♠ were taken. The best that I could muster at the table was playing the ♣ queen next, thinking to duck two ♣ (and remove any block) and then win the third in dummy and sluff ♦ on dummy's ♣. This seemed ok if the ♣ were 3-1 and the ♣ king with West, or the ♣ were 2-2 or the ♦ finesse was on. If the first trick was taken by East and the ♦ finesse lost (and assume a ♥ is led back), play for the 2-2 split in ♣. Alas - none of those came to pass. Is there a better line? It seems that the defense must lead a diamond from East after this trick; what card has the maximum chance to avoid this? Is this correct? Is low on the first club - and ducking in dummy- better. (It works here. Gains with the Jack singleton in west, but loses to the J or 10 singleton in East?) Can we count out the hand by trick 5 - and with the auction - sufficiently to change the play? Kudos to the defense for pressing the auction.

Hi. I cannot login to BBO at www.bridgebase.com. I see the people playing bridge in the background. I can enter my user name and password. A small pop up screen comes up and say connecting, please wait. That little screen disappears and a small yellow error message comes up on the lower right side and says Error - Your internet may be off, or too many players online. Check your internet or try again later. I am using Chrome. I went into Chrome and cleared my cache, etc. I then rebooted. Same problem - every time. Internet explorer gives the same result. I have no problem using the flash version. Help please.