inquiry Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 IMPS, EW VUL ♠ K63 ♥ 972 ♦ AKQ62 ♣ T3 ♠ Q975 ♥ KJ85 ♦ JT8 ♣ AQ South West North East1♦ Pass 2♦ 2♠2NT Pass 3NT All Pass This is a hand from a recent Abalucy tournment. Four Souths played 3NT. Can you do better than they did? 2♦ was "inverted raise" Opening lead CLUB 4 to Club KING... (fourth best marked).. thanks luis Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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helium Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 guess dimonds are 4-0 now sow dimont to ace hart to jack, and if Q take trick only chance whould be club 7-2 and bouth ace on the short club hand, if Q ceep trick or ace take it i play hart to 8 next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 ♦J, then ♦10 to dummy and lead spade through East to the Queen. East must duck (Morton's Fork), otherwise 9 tricks (5♦, 2♣, 2♠), cross back to dummy and cash the remaining diamonds. Then lead heart to king - you make 1♠, 1♥, 5♦ and 2♣. Actually it is a heart guess, but East is more likely to hold the ace especially at this vulnerability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Well done. Yes Paul is right. I also want you to note one little "trick" on this hand in red below. ♠ K63 ♥ 972 ♦ AKQ62 ♣ T2 ♠ ♠ AJT842 ♥ AT63 ♥ Q4 ♦ 9754 ♦ 3 ♣ 98643 ♣ KJ75 ♠ Q975 ♥ KJ85 ♦ JT8 ♣ AQ This is an important hand if you happened to landed in 3NT from the South side of the table. If played by north, a ♠ lead will give your 9th trick. Indeed everyone playing 3NT NS had no trouble making 3NT after a ♠ lead. If ♦ split, there are 5♦ tricks, plus 2♣. But the ♣ has but you into trouble. Imagine if you cross to dummy and lead a ♥. They will win the ♥ACE and clear the club suit. Now unless you can grab 2♥ tricks, you are sure down. The correct play (I think), is to cash 1♦, cross to dummy in ♦’s, and lead a ♠ towards the Q. East can’t afford to play the ♠ ACE since that would give you 9 sure tricks (2♠ + 5♦ + 2♣). So after the ♠Q wins, you run your ♦’s then lead a ♥ and hopefully quess correctly which one to play (if EAST has both that you COULD have won 2♥ tricks if you had played on ♥ instead of a ♠ when in dummy first time, you can’t go down. Now, a special honorable mention to gold star RITONG who, on defense, played the ♣J at trick one. This was a GREAT play, which is why he has a gold star. This gives the impression that WEST has the ♣K, increasing the chance that South would miss guess the ♥ suit. I know if I had been playing the hand, I would have played then played EAST for the ♥Ace. Why? With six spades AJT and club J, and heart Q, he might have tried preemptive jump in ♠ or not overcalled. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trpltrbl Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Now, a special honorable mention to gold star RITONG who, on defense, played the ♣J at trick one. This was a GREAT play, which is why he has a gold star. This gives the impression that WEST has the ♣K, increasing the chance that South would miss guess the ♥ suit. I know if I had been playing the hand, I would have played then played EAST for the ♥Ace. Why? With six spades AJT and club J, and heart Q, he might have tried preemptive jump in ♠ or not overcalled. Ben I actually think it is a very standard play, the J ofhttp://mnet.bg/~mfn/c.gif. But I do always enjoy playing with Henri because he thinks ahead, not just about the trick to be played. Mike :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Now, a special honorable mention to gold star RITONG who, on defense, played the ♣J at trick one. This was a GREAT play, which is why he has a gold star. This gives the impression that WEST has the ♣K, increasing the chance that South would miss guess the ♥ suit. I know if I had been playing the hand, I would have played then played EAST for the ♥Ace. Why? With six spades AJT and club J, and heart Q, he might have tried preemptive jump in ♠ or not overcalled. Of course it looks pretty silly when declarer holds ♠ Qxxx ♥ AKxx ♦ JTx ♣ Qx ... It is the standard play in a suit contract, I'm not so convinced about NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Well, Mike sugeest that the ♣JACK is the "standard" play. I don't think I agree with this. From ♣AQx, standard is probably the ♣QUEEN to keep declarer from using a hold-up play. But here, as Paul points out, playing the JACK runs the risk of looking pretty darn silly, but then, the hand he constructs is hardly a free-2NT bid over 2♠'s. Wouldn't expect everyone to pass with piece of junk over 2♠ (if not originally)? BTW, I play 2/3 doubles here as well (see other discussions pushing 2/3 doubles) and would make a forcing pass with 4 cards in ♠'s. We would have to ask Henri why he found, what to me seems the killer anti-discovery play of ♣Jack. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Trpltrpotrpltr Have you ever heard about the "impossible queen" ? Not standard at all, well done by Henri! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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