Easy defence

[Codo]

[hv=d=e&v=b&e=skqh872dj98754cj9&s=st63hkj54dat2cq53]266|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

The bidding:

East South West North

pass pass 1 ♠ 2 ♣

2 ♠ pass 4 ♠ all pass.

 

Trick 1 and 2:Your pd leads the Ace and King of club, all follow, declarer with the 6 and Ten.

Trick 3: Then pd switches to a Spade (the 2), won in dummy.

T4: Declarer plays a heart to your 5 and his ten, pd follows with a 6.

T5: Declarer crosses in trump, pd following with the 8.

T6: Declarer plays the 7 from dummy, you cover with the jack, to the queen, pd follows with the 9

T7-9 declarer draws three round of trump, partner discarding the lowest remaining diamonds, you follow once and discard two small diamonds.

 

Now you reach trick ten and declarer leads the last trump, pd discarding the last club, dummy a diamond- comming down to J98 in diamond.

 

You look at ♥ K,4 ♦A and ♣Q.

 

Which card do you discard?

[gwnn]

how many 6's of hearts does partner have?

[Finch]

To get this right all we need to know is how many hearts declarer started with.

 

Well, I was looking at partner's cards in hearts to work out the heart count, and discovered that partner had played the 6 twice...

 

is that high-low or low-high?

[Finch]

If partner played 6-3 of hearts, declarer started with a 6-4-1-2 and we need partner to have the king of diamonds, so discard the DA.

 

If partner played 3-6 of hearts, declarer started with a 6-3-2-2 and we discard a heart.

[Codo]

SORRY, he had the 6 and the 9, and we play udca so I play him for no more hearts, giving declarer 4.

[Codo]

Oh by the way, I am more interested in seeing non influenced votes, so I would be happy not to read about the solution too soon. :)

[the hog]

Assume you mean pd played high low in H. If so, agree with Frances' analysis above and pitch DA

[skjaeran]

Partner's discards are unclear to me, I suppose he's gotten rid of all his clubs and has discarded four of them. Giving declarer T6 doubleton from the start.

 

Partner followed with the ♥6-9. Partner thought it could cost following with the 9 first. If partner held 963 he'd give correct count.

 

Declarer thus started with AQT3, and is now down to ♥A3 and a singleton ♦. I'll throw the ♣Q. If declarer plays his diamond I win the ace and return the ♥K, pinning the remaing 8 in dummy and setting up my 4 as the last trick.

[Finch]

Partner's discards are unclear to me, I suppose he's gotten rid of all his clubs and has discarded four of them. Giving declarer T6 doubleton from the start.

 

Partner followed with the ♥6-9. Partner thought it could cost following with the 9 first. If partner held 963 he'd give correct count.

 

Declarer thus started with AQT3, and is now down to ♥A3 and a singleton ♦. I'll throw the ♣Q. If declarer plays his diamond I win the ace and return the ♥K, pinning the remaing 8 in dummy and setting up my 4 as the last trick.

If declarer started with a tripleton club partner would have played a third round forcing dummy.

 

But as you say, as we now discover that partner has shown up with the H96 the problem is much less fun as there is no strip squeeze...