mike777 Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 [hv=d=s&v=n&n=sqt5hj843dktca742&s=sj4ha5da9753ckjt5]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv] MP. Contract is 3C. Play this hand. Trick one:.... 3S....5S....AS....4STrick two:...... 7S.....JS....KS.....TSTrick three:....2H....3H.....9H......AH Your plan at matchpoints? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 It seems west won the 2nd trick with the king, not the duce....I'd like to have the bidding before comitting to a plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 It seems west won the 2nd trick with the king, not the duce....I'd like to have the bidding before comitting to a plan. corrected bidding was: 1d=1h2c=3cp opp are silent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I am hoping for some feedback here. These are the kinds of simple looking hands which I seem to make a disaster of in the play. It seems if I can just improve my declarer play a bit I could improve my overall score a couple of places. Just about everyone made 3 or 4 when I was down 2.My plan was that clubs would be 3-2 and D 4-2 or 3-3.I would cash the two top clubs, pitch a heart, then two top d and crossruff D and h.Hopefully make 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I would cross to the DK, cash a spade pitching a heart, and play a diamond to my ace and a diamond. If LHO follows I'll ruff with the 7. If diamonds are then 3-3 I will play ace of clubs, club to the jack. I will make either 3 or 4 or 5 this way depending on what happens. If RHO overruffed me on the second diamond and tapped me I would ruff a diamond with the ace and finesse clubs on the way back. If RHO started with short clubs and short diamonds I will be in trouble but that seems unlikely given the 2 of hearts back which probably means hearts are 4-3. If LHO showed out of diamonds by pitching I would ruff in dummy and play a club to the jack. If that lost and I got tapped on the way back I would lead another diamond and take the rest usually. If a club to the jack won I would ruff a diamond with the ace and play a club to the ten. If lho showed out by ruffing with the 8 or the 9 I would overruff and lead a club to my jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I would cross to the DK, cash a spade pitching a heart, and play a diamond to my ace and a diamond. If LHO follows I'll ruff with the 7. If diamonds are then 3-3 I will play ace of clubs, club to the jack. I will make either 3 or 4 or 5 this way depending on what happens. If RHO overruffed me on the second diamond and tapped me I would ruff a diamond with the ace and finesse clubs on the way back. If RHO started with short clubs and short diamonds I will be in trouble but that seems unlikely given the 2 of hearts back which probably means hearts are 4-3. If LHO showed out of diamonds by pitching I would ruff in dummy and play a club to the jack. If that lost and I got tapped on the way back I would lead another diamond and take the rest usually. If a club to the jack won I would ruff a diamond with the ace and play a club to the ten. If lho showed out by ruffing with the 8 or the 9 I would overruff and lead a club to my jack. So you are trying to set up your side suit before touching trumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I would cross to the DK, cash a spade pitching a heart, and play a diamond to my ace and a diamond. If LHO follows I'll ruff with the 7. If diamonds are then 3-3 I will play ace of clubs, club to the jack. I will make either 3 or 4 or 5 this way depending on what happens. If RHO overruffed me on the second diamond and tapped me I would ruff a diamond with the ace and finesse clubs on the way back. If RHO started with short clubs and short diamonds I will be in trouble but that seems unlikely given the 2 of hearts back which probably means hearts are 4-3. If LHO showed out of diamonds by pitching I would ruff in dummy and play a club to the jack. If that lost and I got tapped on the way back I would lead another diamond and take the rest usually. If a club to the jack won I would ruff a diamond with the ace and play a club to the ten. If lho showed out by ruffing with the 8 or the 9 I would overruff and lead a club to my jack. So you are trying to set up your side suit before touching trumps. yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 What jlall said.But it's not necessarily so much a matter of setting up diamonds as such, more that you need to make some trumps separately to get to 9 tricks. You want to take a heart discard on the spade fairly sharpish (why didn't RHO switch to a heart at trick 2?), so you are going to use a minor suit entry to dummy to do so. It feels better not to touch trumps, as you have prime sources of losers. If trumps are 3-2 with the Q onside you will come to 5 trumps, 2 diamonds, 1 heart and 1 spade, and then you will need diamonds 3-3 as well to make more than 9 tricks. If you try and ruff diamonds in dummy and hearts in hand you have hopes either of scrambling more tricks than that, or of coming to 9 when trumps are not as favourable as all that. If the clubs were the other way round - KJ10x in dummy, A7xx in hand, I might play diamond to the King, spade, heart ruff, diamond, diamond... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 What jlall said.But it's not necessarily so much a matter of setting up diamonds as such, more that you need to make some trumps separately to get to 9 tricks. You want to take a heart discard on the spade fairly sharpish (why didn't RHO switch to a heart at trick 2?), so you are going to use a minor suit entry to dummy to do so. It feels better not to touch trumps, as you have prime sources of losers. If trumps are 3-2 with the Q onside you will come to 5 trumps, 2 diamonds, 1 heart and 1 spade, and then you will need diamonds 3-3 as well to make more than 9 tricks. If you try and ruff diamonds in dummy and hearts in hand you have hopes either of scrambling more tricks than that, or of coming to 9 when trumps are not as favourable as all that. If the clubs were the other way round - KJ10x in dummy, A7xx in hand, I might play diamond to the King, spade, heart ruff, diamond, diamond... I am unclear what you mean by the queen onside, if clubs are 3-2 the club Q is always onside....just not sure which side. I can finese either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 I am unclear what you mean by the queen onside, if clubs are 3-2 the club Q is always onside....just not sure which side. I can finese either way. "onside" = getting the suit rightIf you play trumps at once (or after taking your heart pitch on the spade) and you get them wrong, you quite likely won't have 9 tricks - particularly if you lose to Qxx and they play a third trump back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 p.s. against vaguely sane defenders the CQ is more likely to be on my left as a trump lead is normal on this auction. But as they didn't switch to a heart at trick 2, I'm not sure the defence is sane... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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