Fluffy Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 [hv=pc=n&s=sa862hq92dq2ckj52&n=s7hk6dak97643cat3&d=n&v=b&b=13&a=3d(preemptive)p3nppp]266|200[/hv]Match Points, but IMPs would be the same probably. I hope you guys can draw better inferences than me on this one. Partner's opening was errr wide ranged? Lead is ♠3 (Attitude, promises a honor)You duck ♠Q, and win ♠10 return with the ace (LHO plays the 4)Then comes 7 rounds of diamonds pitching your hearts RHO:♦5-♥4-♥7-♥J-♠5-♣4-♣6 LHO:♦8-♦10-♦J-♥3-♥5-♥8-♥10 Next comes ♣A and ♣10, RHO showing 8-9, LHO the 7. Decision point![hv=pc=n&s=shdckj52&n=shkdcat3]133|200[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Partner's opening was errr wide ranged? Would partner also open 3♦ with a weak hand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 The hands are ♠KJ43 ♥T853 ♦JT8 ♣7 opposite ♠QT4 ♥J74 ♦5 ♣9864 plus ♠9, ♥A and ♣Q. There are 2 ways for RHO to hold Q and only one for LHO so on the surface it seems that finessing is indicated. That the lead would be most appealing from ♠KJ943 only encourages this - West might have led ♠4 or even a passive ♥8 from ♠KJ43. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted December 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 I failed this one, but perhaps I shouldn't, with 5 clubs RHO might had pitched one before spade, its a feble argument, but at least something, I got 600 only after losing to doubleton queen. Another argument is that lols are getting 630 (or as the cards lie 660 or 690) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 I failed this one, but perhaps I shouldn't, with 5 clubs RHO might had pitched one before spade, its a feble argument, but at least something, I got 600 only after losing to doubleton queen. Another argument is that lols are getting 630 (or as the cards lie 660 or 690)This is a recurrent theme....the first pitch when an opp is running a suit is almost invariably from a 5+ suit if discarder has one. Manfield wrote a great article (it may have been a series) in the BW many years ago, called, iirc, the idle fifth. My experience is that it is almost hard-wired into the non-expert and even to the lazy expert to make this first discard from length. Yet much of the time, we can see, as defenders, that we have several pitches to make. Subject to the need to give signals to partner (bearing in mind that a good declarer is looking for these signals as well) we should be randomizing the order of suit pitches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 I got 600 too and noone else bought a lottery ticket. :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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