the hog Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 You holdxxxAJTxxxQAQx You open 1D showing Hs and the bidding proceeds1D (1S) P (3NT)You lead the HT showing 0 or 2 higher and this dummy tracksAKJTxx98xTxxx Partner surprises you by winning the K (good guy) and continuing with the H2 , the 9 and you defend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Hearts are likely to be 6124 arround the table, with RHO holding Q8xx[Partner failed to find a raise earlier, strong implying that he does not hold Kxx] I'm guessing that RHO blasted to 3NT on a hand like KxQ8xxAKJTxxxK Given my hand, I am going to bang the Ace of clubs.If there were fewer Diamonds in Dummy, such that partner might hold a Diamond stop, then I would win the heart and exit with a low heart asking for a club return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Hi, Opener bid NT with just Q9xx in Hearts and did not search for an alternative. Why?Ok, what do I know?I have 4 easy tricks, declarer 5 if the spades run, 1 in Heart if I play two more rounds, maybe one in Club. Does he have 2 Diamond tricks?Or more and not the queen of spade? If he has just 8 tricks in spades and diamond, I simple need to defend passiv with a spade. If he has enoug tricks but not the king of Clubs, I better cash out...Ok, Pd showed already the King of H and maybe had act with a second king in clubs, so I choose the first way, win the heart and play a spade. At the table of course this will get me to 3 NT +2 opposite 3 NT -2 from my team mates... B) Kind Regards Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted June 8, 2003 Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 You didn't say if this was IMPs or matchpoints. My defense is different at the two games. At matchpoints, I would wimp out and cash the top heart and top club and continue clubs (assuming the H Queen doesn't fall of course). My thought is that East is probably looking at running diamonds (with my queen falling). They could easily win 5S + 6D if I don't cash out. At IMPs, I am going to play partner for a diamond stop. The two options are he has DT7xx or J7xx and east is only 1-4-5-3, or partner has DJxx and East is 1-4-6-2. On both of these hands, a spade back will swamp declearer's boat. So at imps, I win the HJACK and return a spade. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted June 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Thought I said it was teams - Australian play off trials event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted June 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Full hands AKJTxx98xTxxx xQ9xxAKTxxxKx Best is to cash AH and then put him on the board with the S. Pd has a D stop - Jxx. If you play A and another H he can test Ds by laying down the K and then hooking after seeing the Q drop. This way he only had 8 tricks. I was surprised at this as the datum was -310 NS (EW vul of course). Gave a lot of thought to Richard's suggestion re banging down A of C, but this guy is a good player and is really marked with KC. Question - should pd switch to a C after winning H K? Bit hard I suppose - he holds xxxxKxJxxJxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Thanks for the solution, but why do you need to bang down the ace of Heart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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