Cyberyeti Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 [hv=pc=n&s=s5ha875dqj83caj82&n=sakjt2hkt92dakct5]133|200[/hv] Dealer W who opens 2♦ explained as acol 8 playing tricksN doublesE bids 4♦ (weak aceless raise)S bids 4♥W passesN bids 6♥ W leads ♠6 You know the W player, and know that he plays a multi in every partnership other than this one. Take it from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 [hv=pc=n&s=s5ha875dqj83caj82&n=sakjt2hkt92dakct5]133|200[/hv] Dealer W who opens 2♦ explained as acol 8 playing tricks Sorry, what does this mean? Is it a diamond oriented hand with 8 tricks? Is it any hand (perhaps some suit or NT) with 8 tricks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Oh, and there's no way this has anything to do with your other post about obligations...right? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted March 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Oh, and there's no way this has anything to do with your other post about obligations...right? ;)This has everything to do with that, but is still an interesting play problem if you don't actually look at the hand posted there. But you can assume that W has forgotten that he doesn't play a multi in this partnership and has a weak 2 in spades, but to make sense of E's 4♦, you have to realise that he's responding to an acol 2, ie a decent hand of opening strength plus that expects to make 8 tricks opposite a yarborough with ♦ xx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 I finesse at trick one, because that allows me to take a safety play in trumps. ♠J, ♥K, ♥ to the 8 unless East plays an honour. If hearts are 3-2, I have twelve tricks including one club ruff. If East has ♥QJxx and doesn't split, I cash a third heart, then cash my winners and eventually ruff a club. If East splits from ♥QJxx, I win, then play ♦AK, ♣A, ♦Q throwing a club, club ruff, reaching this position: [hv=pc=n&s=sh87djcj8&n=sakt2htdc]133|200[/hv]East has ♥Q6 left.I lead dummy's top spades, planning to throw two clubs. Assuming that East was 1444, 1453 or 1435, it doesn't matter what he does - if he ruffs the first spade low I overruff, ruff a club (to which he will follow), and lead the other top spade; if he discards on the first spade and ruffs the second spade low, I overruff and ruff my last club; if he never ruffs I have a crossruff. This line fails if the shapes are 6115-1462. I'll know about this after the second round of diamonds, but I haven't yet decided what I'd do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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