twcho Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 I held ♠876 ♥T2 ♦AJT75 ♣A96 hearing my LHO open 1♥, 1♠ from my RHO, 1NT from my left, 3♥ from my right and 4♥ from my left ended the auction. My pd led ♦K and dummy tabled his hand: ♠AKT94 ♥643 ♦432 ♣K7. We play udca and obviously I was not going to overtake the K, so I played the 5 to encourage ♦ continuation, declarer followed with 6. My pd continued with ♦Q. Which card should I play now to ask for a ♣ shift? Is ♦J the card that I should play to discourage pd from continuing ♦ if he still had any? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchiu Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Seems like a good time for the beer card to make a noble sacrifice. If he is out, this should be a clear suit-preference signal, otherwise he will start wondering where the ♦ AJ10 are and figure it out for himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFA Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 This is not 'suddently' a lavinthal situation. You have encouraged trick 1 and your second card now shows count. ♦J, high = odd. Lavinthal is only on here, if everybody knows the distribution of the suit. Observe how easy it is for partner now. With ♦KQx he knows that we don't have any more diamond tricks coming, and he will ask himself, why I didn't overtake the ♦Q, when he might have had a doubleton. And the answer is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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