nielsfoged Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 [hv=d=s&v=b&n=st975hq98642da4c8&s=sak642hakdk76cqj3]133|200|Scoring: IMP1♠-(2♣)-3♣-(p);3♦-(p)-4♠-(p); 6♠-a.p.[/hv] West (Expert) leads ♣A asking for count. East plays ♣4=Even.West continues ♠Q and East contributes ♠3.What now? Maybe you would like to confer with Frances Hinden's post on a similar subject:http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=22498(I borrowed the Topic title, but notice the important differences: in that board, the trump lead was in trick 1 and it was the J not the Q of trump). /Niels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Expert or not, he is giving up the (small) chance of making his stiff ♠Q by playing it. This means that he should then have ♠QJ But then if he had ♠QJ he would had led the ♠J instead of the queen, because then I won't have the inference of the stiff queen.... I am not good at mind games, hope Justin solves this one, I cannot. What did the odds say?, fnese? that's what I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 he knows we're good so he wouldn't play from QJ tight, since he knows that he's making a trump trick with that and that maybe his weird play will make some people change their mind (whereas if he doesn't play them now he knows we'll RC it). so he has the stiff Q and was trying to confuse us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 [hv=d=s&v=b&n=st975hq98642da4c8&s=sak642hakdk76cqj3]133|200|Scoring: IMP1♠-(2♣)-3♣-(p);3♦-(p)-4♠-(p); 6♠-a.p.[/hv] West (Expert) leads ♣A asking for count. East plays ♣4=Even. Is it really best to still give count when there is a singleton in dummy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Is it really best to still give count when there is a singleton in dummy? At slam level it is best to ask count with King, and attitude with Ace (partner can have the King). When dummy has singleton I doubt any of the former still apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I'm not sure why you should let LHO talk you out of a normal play. He should always make QJ dub and we should always make QJ tight. I don't see any gamesmanship here and I think this position is a lot different than what Justin posted a few months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 he knows we're good so he wouldn't play from QJ tight, since he knows that he's making a trump trick with that and that maybe his weird play will make some people change their mind (whereas if he doesn't play them now he knows we'll RC it). so he has the stiff Q and was trying to confuse us. I agree with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 I agree with gwnn; I think the expert is attempting to find the one way to set the contract: via confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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