Fluffy Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 ♠A642♥KJ7♦K♣AK1063 ♠J10985♥63♦Q764♣75 ( 1 ♥ )- X -( 2 ♥ )-pass(pass)-3♣-(pass)-3♠(pass)-4♠-all pass lead is ♣4, plan the play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 I win the A. What spot does RHO and what are their agreements? I'll continue with the ♦K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmcw Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 I must hold my ♥ and ♠ losers to 1 each.I'm playing for ♠ to be 2/2 or 3/1 stiff honor, and then guess ♥ correctly. Win the ♣, play the K♦ and follow with A♠ and a ♠ ASAP.If I have to make an early decision in ♥ I play the op who does not have the A♦ for ♥A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 It does depend a bit on what the club layout looks like, but probably: Win and play ♦K. Win the club continuation and cash ♠A. Then:- If no honour appears, play another spade, finding them 2-2. If they play back a diamond, try to set clubs up, then if that doesn;t work guess the hearts. If they play a heart through dummy earlier, we have to guess the hearts immediately. It's not much of a guess anyway - the bidding and lead make LHO very likely to have ♥A.- If a spade honour appears, ruff a club before playing another trump - that saves us a heart guess if LHO is something like 1543. If they play back a diamond at trick three, they're too good for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I don't think I can make this if clubs break 5-1 (LHO will probably be 3541 then), so I'll have to assume LHO has 2 or 3 of those. In that context I can afford to play ace and another spade at this point, so I'll do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdeegan Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 :P I am going to need three things: 1. to hold trump losers to one. Possibilities are 2-2, 3-1 or 1-3 with stiff honor or KQx(x) on my left.2. to guess the ♥ suit - my initial inclination is that the ♥ ace is to my left since they didn't lead ♥, and LHO opened the bidding.3. to find a tenth trick - either two ♦ ruffs in dummy OR set up a fifth round ♣ winner OR find both ♥ onside OR find both ♣ onside OR a squeeze. How best to combine chances? Obviously, start by winning the ♣ noting RHO's spot card (giving up the ♣QJ onside except for the squeeze possibility), and playing the ♦ king. I don't have the mental capacity to enumerate all the possibilities from here, so I would just take it a trick at a time. 2-2 trumps and the ♥ ace onside appear to be my best possiblity at this stage, and I am not going to do anything to eliminate that play for the contract. I also fancy setting up the fifth ♣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 RHO plays lowest club spot, udca. the only way to make this contract was making 2 heart tricks. LHO was indeed 3541, playing a diamond early gets dummy tapped and you lose a diamond before you cn discard on hearts for lack of comunication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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