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Tricky suit combination


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Auction, starting on your right:

 

1H 1S 3H 4S

all pass

 

In one of the suits you have a combined holding of J2 opposite singleton 3.

Why does it matter which card you play from dummy (J2) on the first round of the suit?

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The usual reason for playing a high card in such a situation is to keep an opponent off the lead. Another reason could be to try to deceive them as to the real holding. What am I missing?
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The usual reason for playing a high card in such a situation is to keep an opponent off the lead. Another reason could be to try to deceive them as to the real holding. What am I missing?

 

You aren't necessarily missing anything. I thought the hand was sweet. What are all 4 hands?

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I played a board like this where my partner underlead AKJTxxx on lead vs a slam and they failed to play the Q from dummy, so my 9 held the trick and I gave partner at ruff at trick two.

 

Something like this would do:

 

[hv=pc=n&s=s7haj765dat5cakq3&w=sakq5432ht98dcj42&n=sj8hkq432dkqj432c&e=st96hd9876ct98765&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1h4s5hp6hppp&p=s5s8]399|300[/hv]

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