pclayton Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 More MPs. Its the 1st round and you are both at Table 3. LHO is a local pro with a lot of swagger playing with the wife of a GLM. Plus, you are playing with one his regulars, so there's a little extra at stake. The client nails the pro on the 1st hand for 800 (wdp!) against nothing. The 2nd board is a push. Here's a chance to gain a little extra respect at the table (and with your client): [hv=d=n&v=n&n=st8ha5da8652cqj62&s=saj62hqt7642d3ca3]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv] No bidding from the opponents. You are dealer (I think) and the bidding proceeds 1♥ - 1N - 2♥ - 3♥ - 4♥ (perhaps questionable at MPs). Mr. Pro leads the ♥8, low, King, low. Heart returned to the Ace (LHO follows with the 9). Proceed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 i'd call the director when LHO leads the ♥ 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted October 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Fixed. Now get back to work. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 I guess dealer was south.... anyway, entries to dummy are rare, so club to ace, pull last trump. play some hearts coming to... [hv=n=st8hda8xcqjx&s=sajxxhtxdxcx]133|200|[/hv] At this point, i would lead a low club. Either the queen wins or EAST overtakes with the king (if west wins, then of course, i have 10 tricks). there are other possible lines, low towards the T8 if I think the pro has held onto Kx or Qx of spades, DA, and D ruff if i think the 13th will be good. There just isn't enough info to decide which play i would make without seeing honest carding at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 with no hope of ruffing out the diamond suit and general disdain for anything that looks remotely like a finesse... i cross over to the club ace, cash the heart queen dropping the heart jack from someone (probably lho), play off a couple more hearts and lead my lone remaining club up to the QJx. i then start counting undertricks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted October 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 I don't understand the idea of playing a few hearts. Certainly, they will give a count signal on the club and have an idea of what to keep. We might need to establish 2 spade tricks so why are we letting ourselves lose control of this hand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Phil, I think the lead is what tells you the situation here. Either spades are split or Mr. Local Pro didn't want to blow the lead with a spade; in addition, he's trying to recover the 800 your client hammered him with and is trying to be passive. Me thinks Mr. Pro owns the KC and K and or Q of spades. So, once in the dummy, put him over Morton's fork. Club to the Ace, pull last trump, exit a club. Game over, hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 I am going to play LHO for the majority of the hcp due to the lead. So, I cross to the ♣A, play 2 more rounds of trump, the 4th round merely on the no-cost offchance that LHO may pitch a club from Kxxx. I then lead a club up. If LHO pops, game over. If he ducks, I win and ruff a club back. If he began with or pitched down to Kxx, game over. If he has Kxxx, and the K doesn't drop, I lead a low spade. If he pops an honour, game over. If he plays the 9, I cover and later lead low to the 8, spurning the chance to drop his now stiff honour if he began with H9, because I don't need to. If he plays low, then I play the 8, hoping he had K9x or Q9x, and next time, I run the 10. If he ducks the 1st spade smoothly from KQxx, he has me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 If mike says that it must be correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted October 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 I am going to play LHO for the majority of the hcp due to the lead. So, I cross to the ♣A, play 2 more rounds of trump, the 4th round merely on the no-cost offchance that LHO may pitch a club from Kxxx. I then lead a club up. If LHO pops, game over. If he ducks, I win and ruff a club back. If he began with or pitched down to Kxx, game over. If he has Kxxx, and the K doesn't drop, I lead a low spade. If he pops an honour, game over. If he plays the 9, I cover and later lead low to the 8, spurning the chance to drop his now stiff honour if he began with H9, because I don't need to. If he plays low, then I play the 8, hoping he had K9x or Q9x, and next time, I run the 10. If he ducks the 1st spade smoothly from KQxx, he has me :) This is more or less what happened. LHO did have ♣Kxx, although the spade 9 was offside. RHO gave me a friendly peter on the club, so the play rated to work. The pro berated his pard for not shooting through a spade at T2 :) I said, no, that gives me the contract too. I did say the winning defense at T2 is a diamond. Since LHO has the 3rd trump and the shorter clubs, the defense can prevail whether or not LHO grabs the ♣K. I believe with a diamond shift, I need to play for the ♣K and ♠9 offside, so I'd probably go -2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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