Cyberyeti Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 When clubs are 3-2, you only go down by playing the ace when the lead is from KQ2 or 82 or 72, all of which would be anti-systemic leads. Otherwise the clubs are blocked. Not if you lose a spade and a clubI think Paul's talking about the simple line of rising with the A♣, drawing trumps, cashing the red aces and leading another club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Yeah but if you're always going to do that it is better to play the jack since it caters to the same layouts plus the possibility that they made an anti systemic lead or that RHO loses their mind and doesn't continue clubs if LHO has a stiff. Don't get me wrong I think playing the ace is right though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted January 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 The club lead was a singleton. The eight of spades dropped on the first round. You would have expected this to bring joy to most, but there were a surprising number of embarrassed faces in the bar afterwards. Most were unwilling to explain what they'd done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 The club lead was a singleton. The eight of spades dropped on the first round. You would have expected this to bring joy to most, but there were a surprising number of embarrassed faces in the bar afterwards. Most were unwilling to explain what they'd done! They went down twice? Once by not using ♠7, and once by not using ♠2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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