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My guess is that declarer has 6, 3 and 4 blacks.

He tries to ruff a in dummy.

Other than the Ace, P should provide 2 trump tricks and either a ruff or one more .

Playing the 9 caters for both when P gets an immediate ruff, or when he must overtake and play on trumps.

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My guess is that declarer has 6, 3 and 4 blacks.

He tries to ruff a in dummy.

Other than the Ace, P should provide 2 trump tricks and either a ruff or one more .

Playing the 9 caters for both when P gets an immediate ruff, or when he must overtake and play on trumps.

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My guess is that declarer has 6, 3 and 4 blacks.

He tries to ruff a in dummy.

Other than the Ace, P should provide 2 trump tricks and either a ruff or one more .

Playing the 9 caters for both when P gets an immediate ruff, or when he must overtake and play on trumps.

 

Declarer cant have 3 because partner has either 2 o 4.

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it is hard to imagine why declarer would win the first trick

with the dia K if they held AK. Given that information alone

it seems something strange is going on

 

p has the dia A or T or both from the initial carding.

while the 9 may work most of the time it fails when

p has only the AT left and made a desparation play to

get a spade ruff (when they looked at that fantastic dummy)

by ducking the first dia and getting us in with our J.

 

The best dia play right now is the J which caters to all

scenarios. If declarer started with AKxx pay off and get

get some easier opponents to deal with sheeesh.

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I play the jack (in case partner had ATx) and attempt to give partner a spade ruff. I hope he made a good play by ducking the ace to leave me with an entry for just this purpose. Yes with ATx he could have played the T but I don't think the jack can cost so I may as well save him just in case he didn't.

 

Edit: I didn't read the post right before mine. Change to "agree with gszes".

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I play the jack (in case partner had ATx) and attempt to give partner a spade ruff. I hope he made a good play by ducking the ace to leave me with an entry for just this purpose. Yes with ATx he could have played the T but I don't think the jack can cost so I may as well save him just in case he didn't.

 

Edit: I didn't read the post right before mine. Change to "agree with gszes".

All well and good.

Partner would not duck the ace with 4 diamonds, neither with two.

But what is the layout where a spade ruff now is necessary to beat the contract?

 

Rainer Herrmann

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