Sectional hand V down 4

[jillybean]

We've just come 2nd in A/X :) Leading, we had 62% going into the last round :(

This, (top board) was no fun to play, I don't think I've ever taken only 3

tricks as declarer.

 

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[ahydra]

Well, EW missed 3NT, so wtp? :) (West seems to have a perfectly sane 1NT call over 1C)

 

Also, I think double-dummy you can be held to just your two aces! (CAKQ, then heart towards K, say South wins and plays a diamond. Then DA, DK, D to 9, DJ throwing heart and a spade)

 

ahydra

[JLOGIC]

That is elegant but you could also just get a heart ruff to beat it 5 on normal defense (say west guessed to lead a diamond, east wins and shifts to a heart, west continues a heart, south plays let's say a diamond hoping to get a ruff...west gives his partner a heart ruff, east plays trumps, west clears trumps and plays a diamond).

[kayin801]

I don't know the strength of the A/X field that was played in, but 3NT looks like it's frequently down on a heart lead. Maybe after 3 rounds of hearts and 5 rounds of clubs declarer should guess the position since S is pressed for pitches. (giving up 2 spades looks like it marks the Q with N, so S would have diamond Q?)

[ahydra]

I don't know the strength of the A/X field that was played in, but 3NT looks like it's frequently down on a heart lead. Maybe after 3 rounds of hearts and 5 rounds of clubs declarer should guess the position since S is pressed for pitches. (giving up 2 spades looks like it marks the Q with N, so S would have diamond Q?)

 

Declarer can play for South having the SA after the opening bid. (Slim odds on South having opened a flat 11 and North has just an ace) So he just plays a spade to the K after 5 rounds of clubs. South can win and cash his remaining heart(s), but that's it.

 

ahydra