jahol Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 [hv=d=n&v=b&n=sahj2dak9532c10872&s=s9754haq1073dj10ca3]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Bidding: 1D----1S----DBL--2C2D----2S----3H----PASS3S----PASS-4H----PASS.... First lead: spade JackThis is not about the bidding, it is about making the contract. In an eight board match, you did not have any plus in scoring table after seven boards. So, you really need to make it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I think i will go for the diamonds to be 3-2 with Q being in the doubleton hand. East is likely to hold King of hearts. Also, seems like he will not hold more than 3 hearts. So after winning the ♠A, lead the ♥J. If East covers, duck. East cannot continue spades to his advantage. Now you can win the return, draw trumps and enjoy the diamonds. If east fails to cover, we can draw trumps and run the diamonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahol Posted April 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I think i will go for the diamonds to be 3-2 with Q being in the doubleton hand. East is likely to hold King of hearts. Also, seems like he will not hold more than 3 hearts. So after winning the ♠A, lead the ♥J. If East covers, duck. East cannot continue spades to his advantage. Now you can win the return, draw trumps and enjoy the diamonds. If east fails to cover, we can draw trumps and run the diamonds. Quite reasonable approach.... ...but...oops....I made a mistake in description of the bidding, there was no 2 clubs call from the left.... In summary, my LHO passed all the time, my RHO bid spades twice. Does it make any difference? I think, it does. I tried to play the board the following way (hoping for trumph king onside and 3 diamonds in LHO hand, but not needing diam Q onside): 1)spade ace 2)diamond ace 3)diamond king 4)small diamond, ruff 5)small spade, ruff 6)small club to ace 7)small spade ruffed with jack 8)diam to tripple void ruffed with ten 9)anything but trumph AQ.....10-13)two more tricks made with trumph AQ.... I knew that there could have been additional problem as soon as my RHO had ruffed third round of diamonds immediately with 8 or 9 with an attempt to promote partners trumphs. but it was quite possible that1) he would not do that 2)some variant would appear, I still would made the contract - the situation would have been quite complicated in such case to be analyzed here. Do you think, this variant of playing the hand was reasonable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I tried to play the board the following way (hoping for trumph king onside and 3 diamonds in LHO hand, but not needing diam Q onside): 1)spade ace 2)diamond ace 3)diamond king 4)small diamond, ruff What if East puts the ♥9 on the third diamond? Now you have to ruff with the T. Now the 4th diamond can get overruffed with the ♥8 and in the end you might be forced to lead from the ♥AQ. (Haven't thought out completely). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I tried to play the board the following way (hoping for trumph king onside and 3 diamonds in LHO hand, but not needing diam Q onside): 1)spade ace 2)diamond ace 3)diamond king 4)small diamond, ruff 5)small spade, ruff 6)small club to ace 7)small spade ruffed with jack 8)diam to tripple void ruffed with ten 9)anything but trumph AQ.....10-13)two more tricks made with trumph AQ.... I knew that there could have been additional problem as soon as my RHO had ruffed third round of diamonds immediately with 8 or 9 with an attempt to promote partners trumphs. but it was quite possible that1) he would not do that 2)some variant would appear, I still would made the contract - the situation would have been quite complicated in such case to be analyzed here. Do you think, this variant of playing the hand was reasonable? This was also my first thought, so I guess it is reasonable ;). If diamonds are not 3-2 then you are pretty hopeless anyway. If the queen drops doubleton on your left then you are in pretty good shape when you play the diamond 9 and pitch a club. If LHO turns out to have started with two small diamonds then you are in miserable shape, but it is not easy to spot a line that would allow you to make it in that case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahol Posted April 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Anyway, I went down, because three diamonds were in the same hand as spade suit.The winning strategy was to cash spade ace and to finesse heart king - third onside. The diamond queen is offside, but the opponents can not cash three spade tricks, because this suit is blocked - LHO has got doubleton J10!The lesson I got in this hand is - play the board in simple way, be optimistic and do not count probabilities! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Anyway, I went down, because three diamonds were in the same hand as spade suit.The winning strategy was to cash spade ace and to finesse heart king - third onside. The diamond queen is offside, but the opponents can not cash three spade tricks, because this suit is blocked - LHO has got doubleton J10!The lesson I got in this hand is - play the board in simple way, be optimistic and do not count probabilities! Eeks! Even if you make the right play on every hand, you rate to go down _sometime_ (unless it is a 100% contract)! Don't let this hand give you a bad lesson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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