Cyberyeti Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 [hv=pc=n&s=sk6hkq9854dakck72&n=sq732hat6d95ca984]133|200[/hv] How do you play this in 6♥ (or indeed 4♥) at matchpoints ? Lead is J♦, E plays 2 showing an odd number. Opps are silent in whatever auction you have. I'll post the other hands later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 I only see one obvious line. Win the diamond A, 2 rounds of trumps ending in dummy and play a spade to the K then: a) if it holds, duck a spade. If I have a trump entry, I can hope for the spade ace coming down in 3, or if they didn't switch to clubs, a black suit squeeze.b) if the spade loses, then I win the next trick in hand, play the spade queen and ruff a spade, then run the trumps hoping for the same squeeze (whether or not it is positional depends on the switch, club switch makes it positional). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 In Manudude's line, if ♠K loses to the ace and they play back a club, it's probably better to play a trump squeeze instead: win the club in hand, then cash all but one trump and [Di[AK, blanking ♣A. That works when either player has the sole guards in the black suits, but you have to read the ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted January 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 My other question is would it make any difference what line you played if you were playing at a club or against top internationals ? This occurred at my local club yesterday, we scored 57.26% which was good enough for 5/20 and I believe this sums up the standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 The club is playing 4H. Any line that makes is a top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 against opponents so bad that might fly with ♠A I still paly the same line mannudude and gnasher said, because LHO is bad enough to lead ♠A, so I expect RHO to be the one who flies with ♠A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted January 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 The club is playing 4H. Any line that makes is a top.Surprisingly: 6= 14+2 34+1 56-1 1 we conceded 4+1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 These are the opponents' hands [hv=pc=n&w=sat98h73djt87cqj5&e=sj54hj2dq6432ct63]266|100[/hv] You have I think (be happy to be proved wrong) to be pretty careful with your discards when you run the hearts, and have to get rid of the 8 and 9 of clubs to allow you to hook the 7 and be able to cash the K after the man with QJx pitches 2. I'm sure nobody at the club was up to this. So how did 4 out of 10 declarers make 12 ? Nobody got the 10♠ lead which is one way, but J♦(twice), Q♣ and small trump were the chosen leads. I'm beginning to wonder if they just banged out 5 rounds of trumps without touching the spades, and given the choice of ♠A1098 and ♣QJx, people just threw a spade allowing them to be ruffed out. The double dummy calculator says you can only make 5, presumably a club lead and continuation just kills it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecalm Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 The double dummy calculator says you can only make 5, presumably a club lead and continuation just kills it. I don't get it. Why would he ever discard 2 clubs ? I mean unblucking 98 of clubs is nice play because LHO might make a mistake but he has no legitimate reason to discards clubs I believe ?He just holds to his ♣QJx and A♠ and if you reduce it to 3 card ending he discard one club which is still enough to prevent you from taking 3 club tricks. What am I missing here ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 I don't get it. Why would he ever discard 2 clubs ? I mean unblucking 98 of clubs is nice play because LHO might make a mistake but he has no legitimate reason to discards clubs I believe ?He just holds to his ♣QJx and A♠ and if you reduce it to 3 card ending he discard one club which is still enough to prevent you from taking 3 club tricks. What am I missing here ?You're missing that as soon as he discards a spade, you establish dummy's 4th spade, so if he just jealously guards his clubs, you're home, his first discard (after throwing his diamonds) must be a club, and this is much easier to see if the spades have been played before the squeezing trump is led. In fact I miscounted the tricks slightly, I don't think the squeeze operates here as you can only force him to discard one club, so would have needed him to hold ♣QJ10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecalm Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 In fact I miscounted the tricks slightly Unfortunately in this game you either miscounted badly or got it right.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Unfortunately in this game you either miscounted badly or got it right.:)Not quite, opps are still there to do the same :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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