dwar0123 Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Playing upside down attitude and standard count.[hv=pc=n&s=s982ht8532d65c865&e=sqj643hjdk3caj932&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=1np2hp2sp3np4sppp]266|200[/hv] Partner leads the A♦ Do you give count or attitude? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Normally suit preference applies when we cannot take another trick in the suit looking at dummy. How much sense does that make in this context? The club and heart tricks cannot run away when we can beat it. Partner can also work out that I'm busted or nearly so. Therefore, I give count and hope for the best. It seems I have to hope declarer has something like Kxx KQx Qxx KQxx - partner cashes the ♥A, plays a second diamond. If declarer immediately plays a spade to the K, he's dead, and if declarer plays club to hand, spade to board, he still has to guess if I'm 2-3 or 3-2 in the blacks. Declarer can also stay ahead of the game by unblocking the diamond I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGibson Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 I would give whatever our default agreement is - mine is attitude, and I would give a positive attitude because I want this continued/can't stand a switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMoe Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Following Chris, if playing obvious switch then low.Also if playing attitude first, low. I want a shot at scoring my trump 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 No way you give "attitude" here. So it will roll over to either count or suit preference, depending upon your agreement with partner. There is even a third possibility. Let's make a couple of assumptions. We will assume they are playing 15-17 hcp for their 1NT. Dummy has 12. so partner has 11 to 13 HCP. He knows we have very few points. If he has 13, he knows we have none. If he has 11 we have at most two. This is a situation where you might play a parity signals (low with three even suits, hi with three odd suits). Here you have three odd suits, so you would play the ♦6 if this is your agreement. In general however, here I would expect a suit preference signal instead of count or attitude unless I had the specific agreement when one hand is known to be "broke" to use parity signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipeng2076 Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 yes，i play ♦6 for suit preference，expect pd to lead ♦ again and next round playing ♦ 5，if pd stop ♠ and lead ♦ 3rd round，will establish another trick in ♠ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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