jillybean Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 [hv=pc=n&s=s853haqj8532d9c64&n=saj6hkt97da87ck85&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=1n4d4h5d5hppp]266|200[/hv] lead ♦Q Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_clown Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Chances arent great. I guess I would draw trumps, play ♣ to the King, and if it holds, eliminate the minors. Depending on the information I have to that point, I would play ♠A and a ♠ hoping E has doubleton Honour, or a ♠ to the Jack hoping ♠ KQ are onside, or E has singleton H. It would be useful to know how many rounds of ♣s and ♥s E could follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyman Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 You need the club A onside, so you'll assume that. Then your choices are to play either for both spades onside or spade Hx on your right. I'm inclined to think that the hands look like:RHO: Hx / x / KJ10xxxx / HxxLHO: H10xxx / x / Qx / AHxxx or so. What I'll do then is win this, ruff a diamond to hand, draw trump (hopefully in 1, but I think I can afford 2), lead a club up. My plan is to win 1 club, and ruff 2 diamonds and a club. When LHO wins the club ace, if he plays a spade, I'll win the ace. Once I've stripped the hand, I'll still have a heart in both hands, so I'll duck a spade to righty, and he'll be forced to lead a diamond for a ruff & sluff. Do I win? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) And if your line doesn't work, do you get a "preempts work", free of charge? Wyman's line for dub honor behind the AJX seems like the best hope. also works with stiff honor or KQ tight. Extra credit for someone: I forget the name of the coup (not applicable here, but related) where declarer bangs an Ace early before elimination, in hopes that a defender with KX won't be awake enough to unblock. Edited December 13, 2011 by aguahombre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyman Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 if my opponents were pretty good and rho unblocked an honor under the spade ace, I'd pay off to KQ tight by playing dummy's trump to hand and leading a spade up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 if my opponents were pretty good and rho unblocked an honor under the spade ace, I'd pay off to KQ tight by playing dummy's trump to hand and leading a spade up.This is strange, since your stated line of play makes that holding irrelevant on this hand...After the elim, RHO is still endplayed; you won't be paying off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyman Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 This is strange, since your stated line of play makes that holding irrelevant on this hand...After the elim, RHO is still endplayed; you won't be paying off. Right. For whatever reason, I thought I'd need to spend my last trump in dummy to get back to play a spade up, giving up the ruff/sluff. But looking at it more carefully, that's not true, even if hearts end up breaking 2-0. Thanks for noticing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Do I win? It sounds good but I don't know the answer. My partner sent this as a problem and he is yet to send thefull hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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