lenze Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 OK, as usual, you and your partner have overbid in the local club game. S – AK5H – Q86D – 8C – AQJ985 S – T842H – AJ52D – KQ96C – K Contract 6NT by South, the opponents were silent. West leads the Diamond J, and East plays the 5.You cash the Club K, and lead a spade to dummy, to run five more clubs. East follows twice and then pitches 2 small hearts, the diamond 2, and the spade 3. West pitches 2 small diamonds. Any Ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 You have 10 tricks: 6C, 2S, 1H and 1D. To get trick 11 you play small H to the J. But then you'll probably go -1. So we need something extra, a throw in maybe... I expect West to have HK. Normally a lead of a Jack means nothing higher, so DA is in East. Since east played hi low in S, he probably has 2 or 4, and since he waited so long to discard one I think he has 4. I don't know what you discarded, but I'd discard all D but DQ, 1H and 2 S, keeping K5 - Q86 opposite T - AJ5 - Q. I give east only 2H and all D and S, so west has K109x in H and was afraid to lose to the 13d H. The only way to win this, is play small H to the J for west. Then you can squeeze East in D and S. 6NT= east hand: QJxx - xx - A10xxx - xxwest hand: xx - K109x - Jxx - xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 I play east for a different hand. I require the heart hook to be on, and for EAST to throw two, he must have held five hearts originally. I also play EAST for the diamond ACE, four times originally. This give EAST 2-5-4-2 distribution. (I have to admit that WEST second small diamond discard is somewhat confusing, however. As this would appear to leave him with stiff Diamond TEN, which suggest playing heart to jack and pinning the diamond TEN, but WEst with four spades the JACK would have felt the pressure on the last club, I suspect with me throwing spades, he would have thrown a spade rather than a second diamond). At this point the hands are... S – A5H – Q86D – C - S-void H-K x xS – D-A xH – AJ5D – Q9C – On the spade ACE, east is squeeze. IF he throws a heart, one heart hook wins me three heart tricks. If he throws a diamond, I hook the heart, and duck a diamond to his stiff ACE, endplaying him. The key play is to cash the second spade. Free's line looks like he is expecting total idiotic defenes. He had west not only lead Diamond J from Jxx he had WEST then throw all his diamonds away, so that when he gets in with a heart king he has no diamond to return to his partners ace (if declearer has heart ACE and diamond ace and WEST the presumed heart King, south would have 12 tricks by leading low towards the heart queen... 2D, 6C, 2S, 2H). People I play against don't defend this way, they can count to 12. Seems that line has 0 chance. BTW my line also works if EAST was 3-5-3-2 as cashing the last spade removes his exit card, I hook the heart and throw him in with this stiff diamond. This holding is possible given the two diamond discards by west, maybe west has 5 diamonds after all. So I get 6NT= with these EW hands...east hand: Qx - KT9xx - Axxx - xxwest hand: J9xx -x - JTxx - xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenze Posted October 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 I play east for a different hand. I require the heart hook to be on, and for EAST to throw two, he must have held five hearts originally. I also play EAST for the diamond ACE, four times originally. This give EAST 2-5-4-2 distribution. (I have to admit that WEST second small diamond discard is somewhat confusing, however. As this would appear to leave him with stiff Diamond TEN, which suggest playing heart to jack and pinning the diamond TEN, but WEst with four spades the JACK would have felt the pressure on the last club, I suspect with me throwing spades, he would have thrown a spade rather than a second diamond). Hi Ben: I also decided to play East for the hand you suggested, with one slight variation. I choose to blank the diamond Q, and hold AJx. After cashing the second spade, I finessed the Heart J and then exited with the diamond to endplay East in hearts. I do, however, think your delayed duck is much more elegant. Unfortunately, we both go down. East’s hand was S – QxxxH – KTxxxD – xxC – xx Yes, west led the diamond Jack from AJTxxx!!!The winning play was to pitch all you diamonds and come down to S –TxH – AJx Now cash the second spade and finesse the heart before exiting with a spade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 Yes, west led the diamond Jack from AJTxxx!!!The winning play was to pitch all you diamonds and come down to S –TxH – AJx Now cash the second spade and finesse the heart before exiting with a spade! LOL... well.. it helps to know your opponents. If I knew WEST as someone who would lead from DIAMOND AJTxx against a slam, I might play this differently. :-) But I assumed (as you did) normal defense. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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