ochinko Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Your partner North deals and the bidding goes:Pass - (1♠) - 5♣ - (5♥)6♣ - (Dbl) - All pass [hv=d=n&v=e&n=sq7632h843da82cqj&s=sh2dkq105cak1098654]133|200|Scoring: IMP6♣ Lead ♥Q[/hv] East wins with ♥A, and returns ♥K which you ruff in hand. What is your best chance of making this? Advanced or better, please hide your answers if they appear immediately bellow, thank you. Edit: Sorry once again for the mistaken sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Imo the best line is not the line you are looking for assuming the line you are looking for is: pull one round of trumps, then play off 3 rounds of diamonds, winning against Jx of diamonds, 3-3 diamonds, or someone being 2-1 in the minors (or 1-1!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ochinko Posted October 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Imo the best line is not the line you are looking for assuming the line you are looking for is: pull one round of trumps, then play off 3 rounds of diamonds, winning against Jx of diamonds, 3-3 diamonds, or someone being 2-1 in the minors (or 1-1!) Yes, I really thought the line you mention was the best one. Which one is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdanno Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Imo the best line is not the line you are looking for assuming the line you are looking for is: pull one round of trumps, then play off 3 rounds of diamonds, winning against Jx of diamonds, 3-3 diamonds, or someone being 2-1 in the minors (or 1-1!) Yes, I really thought the line you mention was the best one. Which one is?How about club to dummy, ruff a spade, club to dummy, ruff a spade, run trumps, coming down to ♠Q ♥x ♦A8 in dummy. Diamond to the ace. Now you know the club break, the heart break (i assume they are 7-2), and maybe you can guess the spade break. But even if you just play diamonds from the top, you make when they are 3-3, or when LHO has 4, or when RHO has 4 together with ♠AK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 club to the jack, ruff a spade high, club to the queen, ruff another spade high. Draw another trump if needed then cash the king of diamonds. Cash 2 more clubs throwing spades. Play the final trump throwing the heart if it isn't good. You make when: diamonds break 3-3diamonds break 4-2 with Jx fallingWest holding 7 hearts and Jxxx(x) diamonds.East holding AK spades (or any 6) and Jxxx(x) diamondsDiamonds 0-6 (unlikely). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ochinko Posted October 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Oh well, I thought I had at least picked the right forum, but now... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Cherdano you should just pitch the heart from dummy on the last trump if it's not high not a diamond (as manudude said). Anyways yeah the squeeze/count chances > 2-1 in the minors. Basically you are losing to 6241 with your line which is a very likely shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 just gonna edit this part cuz of the edit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ochinko Posted October 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Also just for completion I will point out the obvious that RHO always has the AK of spades given that he opened...But RHO showed ♥AK. Why wouldn't he open with ♠A1098xx or ♠KJ109xx or even with 5 spades without the other top ♠ honor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Also just for completion I will point out the obvious that RHO always has the AK of spades given that he opened...But RHO showed ♥AK. Why wouldn't he open with ♠A1098xx or ♠KJ109xx or even with 5 spades without the other top ♠ honor? hmm? It said west wins the HA and returns the K edit: Also says lead HQ, guess I could have figured out you meant to say east rather than west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ochinko Posted October 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Also just for completion I will point out the obvious that RHO always has the AK of spades given that he opened...But RHO showed ♥AK. Why wouldn't he open with ♠A1098xx or ♠KJ109xx or even with 5 spades without the other top ♠ honor? hmm? It said west wins the HA and returns the K edit: Also says lead HQ, guess I could have figured out you meant to say east rather than west. How stupid I am. :( Sorry, named East West. I am going to correct it now. Perhaps for someone it won't be too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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