card play guess

[Fluffy]

[hv=v=b&n=saq9xh10xxdq10xxca10&s=sk10xhaxda9xc8xxxx]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

LHO doubled your 1♦ precision opening and you end up in 3NT

 

♥K is led and after a hold up you take it and play a low diamond.

 

LHO raises with ♦K and switches to ♣Q.

 

Plan the play

[billw55]

Apparently I need four spades, three diamonds, one heart and one club.

 

I play lefty for the ♦J (thanks for the double), that takes care of that. So I cash those then try to read the spade situation based on what I have seen, remembering that hearts are 4-4 (else they would have cashed out after taking the ♦K).

[gnasher]

Win ♣A, diamond to 9, ♦A, ♠10 to Q, ♦Q, ♠ to K, spade, probably finessing the 9.

[karlson]

I think it's interesting to think about why they haven't cashed the hearts -- obviously lefty thinks it's possible for him to be squeezed. Perhaps he thinks I have something like Kx Axx Axx Kxxxx (and he has something like Jxxx KQJx Kx QJx), I think on this layout I can pitch a club from dummy on the fourth heart, forcing his partner to also pitch a club, and eventually squeeze him in the blacks. Of course on that layout I can still make it after the ♣Q, so maybe this exercise is a little silly.

 

But even without any particular analysis, it seems obvious to me that the club return suggests playing lefty for the ♠J, so I also go with gnasher's line.

[Fluffy]

that was the line taken at the table by my teammate as well, LHO had this time:

 

♠xxx

♥KQJx

♦KJx

♣QJx

 

 

on our table south was a bit crazy, after passing I opened 1♣ and passed partner's double!, I redoubled and he ever doubled the 1♥ run by partner, we couldn't avoid -500 with 8 trumps at the 1 level :lol: