badderzboy Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 [hv=d=n&v=n&n=sj642haqj9da932c6&s=shk1082dkqj10ckj842]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Playing with a Novice North against two intermediates all playing Acol the bidding goes as follows... N....E....S....W1♦...P...1♥...1♠3♥...P...4NT...P5♥...P...6♥...X 1)Do u agree with bidding? 2)What does bidding tell you? Opps then lead A Spade... What's your plan? What layouts can't you handle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 1)Do u agree with bidding? 2)What does bidding tell you? 1. No, I don't agree. 3♥ is a slight overbid, and Blackwood is not suitable for a hand with a void. For all you know, you can be off 2 cashing aces on the auction. 2. After the lead, the bidding tells me that East probably has ♣A (he simply must have for the contract to have a chance). Maybe also the queen; AQx or AQxx, but the queen doesn't have to be with East. I don't think I handle it if he has 4 trumps though, but I haven't have time to analyse the hand thoroughly. My aim is to get 6 heart tricks, by ruffing 2 clubs in dummy if necessary, 4 diamond tricks and 2 clubs. So I will play East for something like: QxxxxxxxxAQxx My line would be: Ruff the spade, enter dummy with a diamond and lead a club up. East will likely win his ace and return a heart (spade is no better). I will win in hand, cash ♣K and ruff a club. If the queen hasn't dropped, I come back to my hand by overtaking ♥Q and ruff another club. Now a diamond to hand, pull the last trump and claim. The slam is not a good one, and it should be possible to avoid it. After a 2♥ rebid, South may splinter in 3♠ and North cue bid 4♦. Then South has done enough and should sign off. The 3♥ rebid makes it tempting for South I must admit. 3♠, 4♦ and South has a problem. Slam could well be on if North has the right values (but it's a disappointment that he doesn't have ♣A). When in doubt I think it's a good idea to follow the old rule: "Partners never have what you want them to have"! :D Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badderzboy Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Hi Roland, You're right 4NT is not a good bid ( I was hoping that some BILlies would say so too) as you should be cue-bidding with a void... but you're playing with a novice, so I would assume 3♠ would confuse the hell out of them lol. I think 3♥ is a little bit of an overbid too (just a 7 loser hand really or 15pts including the singleton) but opposite a real 3♥ slam is just too tempting especially in a practice session! I placed the A♣& A♠ in West though for the double (+ at least K or Q ♠) and as they also play intermediate jump o'calls (12+ HCPs) so I thought it was quite likely Q♣ was in East... I decided to try and ruff 3 spades in South and try to promote the K♣ to throw last ♠ so I need 3 entries to North via a diamond , club ruff and a heart... The opps also know me so I played the J clubs from South! playing for West not to have the Q re: above and as they know I am sneaky enough to play J from KQJxx ♣ West played his Ace :D Ruffing Clubs makes perfect sense rather than spades as the entries are there already thx for that! Hearts/Diamonds also break 3-2 so it was easy street. I don't think my line was particularly good but I'm interested in what other BILlies / experts would do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 I placed the A♣& A♠ in West though for the double You are right, I got it wrong. I thought East doubled. So West is likely to have ♣A. But it's not at all certain that he also has the queen, so I would still enter dummy at trick 2 and lead a club up, inserting the jack if East follows small. I still have a legitimate chance even if my jack loses to West's queen. I just need West's ace to drop later, so that I can score 2 club tricks. Leading ♣J as you did is hardly a line anyone would recommend. I do not disregard psychology at the bridge table, but this is perhaps not a case for it. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badderzboy Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Thx Roland I totally agree I posted because I thought my line was v.poor and your suggestion makes much more sense. Seems almost as if I held North as declarer I might see the Club ruff line but got blinded by the spade void in my hand! Thanks for comments Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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