manudude03 Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 [hv=n=saqj643hq4d9ct643&w=s98hkj5dk832ckqj2&e=s75ht9863dt64ca98&s=skt2ha72daqj75c75]399|300|[/hv] Ignoring the fact that 4S is cold, you land in 3NT by S. Play or defend? Sorry if this is too easy, but please don't use DD solvers, more fun that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel_k Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Maybe too easy. Hidden: On a low club to the ace and heart back, West must unblock J under South's ace. Then he can afford to discard club winners on the run of the spades as there is access to plenty of heart winners in East. Otherwise there is bound to be a Vienna Coup and squeeze if defenders cash clubs immediately, or throw-in on West if they don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted February 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Seems this didn't get much interest. Guess it was too easy, nigel got it right. This was a hand from a GiB tourney and I modified the contract. Curiously, does the bot have any way of showing a decent distributional hand? Actual result here Triple squeeze to hold my losses to 1/3 of an imp :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one? B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdanno Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one? B) Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Seems this didn't get much interest. I think it was just that Nigel had said all that there was to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one? :huh: Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.) I still don't get it. OK, so now south and west must bear down to two cards on the run of spades, instead of three. But south still discards first. If south keeps ♦AQ, west keeps ♦Kx; if south keeps ♦A ♥x, west keeps the ♥K. /duncecap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFormaini Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I'm still trying to work out how SOUTH became declarer in Spades. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I don't understand. Let's say E-W are clever enough to cash four clubs off the top. Now west exits with a spade. Declarer has only eight cashers. If he runs the spades, west must blank a king. But since declarer discards first, west can always keep the right one? :huh: Vienna Coup! (Cash ♥A then spades.) I still don't get it. OK, so now south and west must bear down to two cards on the run of spades, instead of three. But south still discards first. If south keeps ♦AQ, west keeps ♦Kx; if south keeps ♦A ♥x, west keeps the ♥K. /duncecapAnd north keeps the queen of hearts, which is now good because west had to throw the heart king to come down to Kx of diamonds. Yay! Btw wrong forum but gib doubles 1NT too much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 And north keeps the queen of hearts, which is now good because west had to throw the heart king to come down to Kx of diamonds. Yay! Btw wrong forum but gib doubles 1NT too much! lol I hadn't even noticed the ♥Q hiding in dummy. duuuuuuh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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