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Deanrover

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It doesnt look very promissing.

Partner must have something in spade and therfore cant have AJ of heart.

Partner can hold at max, the J spade and A of heart, but then declarer already has his game made.

To have a chance to take it down, partner need the K of spade.

my hopes are to find partner with J of heart and K of spade, i will play heart now.

But this would actually not be enough with a good declarer holding up the suit twice, or take the first round. still it got some chances of a mistake by declarer, but the real chance is that partner has 3 spades to the K, in which case we will take 3 spades + 2 hearts.

Im leading my heart K.

This is what i hope partner has.

KJx

Jxxxxx

xx

xx

1 down no matter what declarer do with his A of hearts.

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Dean, your diagrams are worse than mine! :blink: Didn't think that was possible :blink: .

 

Strange auction. I wonder why my LHO didn't look harder for a spade game, especially with a 5-4.

 

I'm assuming that the 1N opening was 15-17, so that leaves partner with a random 3-5. Partner's 9 denies the King.

 

The 8 is more of a problem. It could be from J8 or J83; certainly I'm hoping the latter.

 

So, from the spots, partner has to have a spade honor; which rules out the pipe dream of him holding AJTxxx of hearts. Unfortunately, pard doesn't hold the J either. Declarer's tricks are becoming easier to count; 3 diamonds (assuming pard has the A), 3 clubs, 1 spade and 1 heart. In time, declarer will make 2 more spades too. Continuing clubs can't be right. Neither can a diamond shift. What about the A? Hmmmm....

 

My prayer to Bridgidda is for pard to hold the A and the J. That gives declarer 1 spade, 4 diamond, and 3 clubs.

 

Lets play the K hoping for 3 hearts and 2 spades. Maybe our temamates will find the unbeatable 5 as well.

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