Trumpace Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Are you one who immediately goes to sleep when you get a bad hand? This hand is for you! It is a friendly social rubber.You are East and you hold 9732, 872, 72, 9742 (Weird, you have all the 7's and the 2's). West is dealer and opens 1S. Opponents reach 4H, South being the declarer. Your partner opens with the Spade King (from AK). The dummy hits with: [hv=n=s54hakt9daqj4ca65&e=s9732h872d72c9742]266|200|[/hv] Your partner wins the second round of spades with the Ace and switches to a Diamond. Declarer wins with the K in hand. Opponent draws three rounds of trump (partner following to 2 rounds). Declarer then plays three more rounds of diamonds ending in the dummy. (partner having 3 diamonds). The declarer leads a low club off the table. If you have been sleeping and follow suit with a low club, you have just given away the contract! For this was the position when the club was led: [hv=n=sh9dca65&w=sqhdckjt&e=shdc9742&s=shtdcq83]399|300|[/hv] If you play low, South puts in the 8 and poor partner is endplayed into leading away from the Club K or leading a spade for a ruff/sluff. So don't sleep when you get a bad hand, the whole contract might depend on you :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 If you have been sleeping and follow suit with a low club, you have just given away the contract! For this was the position when the club was led: [hv=n=sh9dca65&w=sqhdckjt&e=shdc9742&s=shtdcq83]399|300|[/hv] If you play low, South puts in the 8 and poor partner is endplayed into leading away from the Club K or leading a spade for a ruff/sluff. So don't sleep when you get a bad hand, the whole contract might depend on you :D Please allow me to sleep on. How will the 4, 7 and 9 help? Is declarer not allowed to duck these cards too? Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted February 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Oops! you are right. I was sleeping when I wrote this up. In order to make the story more interesting I changed the east hand to have 9742 of clubs. In the actual game East actually held J942. You are entitled to your sleep :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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