dbsboy Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 [hv=pc=n&s=sj9hakq32dcakt632&d=s&v=b&b=7&a=1c1s3np]133|200[/hv] Holding this monster 5-6 hand, you opened 1♣. You are playing with a pickup partner. What is your bid? I bid 5♥ since we did not have a lot of agreements. My partner bid 6♣, and all passed. ♠K was led, and dummy's hand was: [hv=pc=n&n=sat54h54dak432cq4]133|100[/hv] How would you play the contract? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoshy Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I like your bid of 5♥. I would take ♠A, ♦A to throw ♠, ruff ♠, ♣A and ♣Q, throw ♥ on ♦K, ruff to hand, claim 12 or 13 if ♣ were 32, else try to cash ♥AKQ and exit a ♥ with ♣KT left for last two tricks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 What's wrong with 2D by North? Anyway, what twoshy said. ahydra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 South's bidding is fine. North's is a bit agricultural. My basic plan is: throw a spade on a diamond; cash two top hearts, ruff the third heart low. If the third heart is overruffed, we're OK unless that was from a singleton trump, or they promote a trump on the way back. If LHO ruffs the third heart in front of dummy with a middle trump, overruff and play a club to the ten. That works against any 4-1 trump break. If someone ruffs the second heart, play to ruff one small heart, throw the other on a diamond, and not lose a trump. That will sometimes involve a trump guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gszes Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 spade Aheart to Aclub to Qdia A pitch spadedia K pitch heartheart toward hand and here is where play diverges if rho follows play K and (if it holds) try to ruff low heart if opps win this trick they have only 2 trump left and with any luck we win return draw trumps and claim if rho ruffs 2nd heart we follow small again opps have only 2 trumps hopefully we win return pulltrumps and claim if rho follows play K and if lho ruffs we now have to hope lho started with only 2 trumps win returnand try to ruff low heart if that works win returndraw trumps and claim if rho discards on 2nd heart we win then lead low heart and ruff if/when rho ruffs opps have only 2trumps left and with any luck we win the return pull trumps and claim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbsboy Posted February 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks for all the responses. I chose gszes's line, cashing 2 top ♦, ♣Q and ♥A and K first. However, ♥K was ruffed by LHO, and unfortunately LHO got 3 trumps so I went down. My partner asked how I went down when trumps were actually 3-2. I wonder if I should cash ♣Q first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Three lines have been suggested:(1) Twoshy's trump reduction(2) Lead top hearts from hand before touching trumps(3) Heart to hand, club to dummy, heart towards hand (3) gains over (2) when RHO has a singleton heart and (♣x or ♣xx or ♣Jxxx), or RHO has a doubleton heart and a singleton club.(2) gains over (3) when LHO has a singleton heart and any 3- or 4-card club holding I haven't checked this with Pavlicek's calculator, but (2) seems rather better than (3). Twoshy's line is quite hard to compare with the other two, but it feels worse because it goes down whenever somebody has four clubs and two hearts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_20686 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Three lines have been suggested:(1) Twoshy's trump reduction(2) Lead top hearts from hand before touching trumps(3) Heart to hand, club to dummy, heart towards hand (3) gains over (2) when RHO has a singleton heart and (♣x or ♣xx or ♣Jxxx), or RHO has a doubleton heart and a singleton club.(2) gains over (3) when LHO has a singleton heart and any 3- or 4-card club holding I haven't checked this with Pavlicek's calculator, but (2) seems rather better than (3). Twoshy's line is quite hard to compare with the other two, but it feels worse because it goes down whenever somebody has four clubs and two hearts. I would just play ace of spades, Kd pitch spade, Q clubs, two top hearts and ruff a heart small. If this stands up then we are home, if over ruffed we are also home. Make as long as clubs no worse than 4-1 and hearts no worse than 4-2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 I would just play ace of spades, Kd pitch spade, Q clubs, two top hearts and ruff a heart small. If this stands up then we are home, if over ruffed we are also home. Make as long as clubs no worse than 4-1 and hearts no worse than 4-2.That's the same as gszes's line (what I called line 3), except that you go down when RHO has a singleton heart and three trumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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