mgoetze Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 [hv=sn=phil&wn=sillafu&w=SJ52H752DAQ6CKQT8&nn=mgoetze&n=SAKT97HDT8CAJ6543&en=tsadek&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=P1C1S2D4S5D5S6DPPP&p=C9CKCAC7]600|450[/hv] (1) Do you agree with the bidding?(2) What do you play to trick 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 ♣3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 With a doubleton club, leading a club would roughly be partner's 4th choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gszes Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I admit I would x 6d and expect p to take it as lightner so they will probablyhave little trouble finding a heart lead. Under these conditions I feel we need to lead a low club back to get a heart back. The 5d bid was aggressive so there is little reason to assume p would pick a club if it was not singleton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagles123 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 small club seems very obvious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 [hv=sn=phil&wn=sillafu&w=SJ52H752DAQ6CKQT8&nn=mgoetze&n=SAKT97HDT8CAJ6543&en=tsadek&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=P1C1S2D4S5D5S6DPPP&p=C9CKCAC7]360|270|(1) Do you agree with the bidding?(2) What do you play to trick 2?[/hv] West's 5♦ bid was brave. North might have tried a Lightner double but that would just make this problem harder.Unless East has a mountain, the contract seems doomed. Having won ♣A, it is hard, at trick 2, to lead into dummy's tenace, especially when declarer is likely to be short of tricks. The mitigating factor appears as the actual play went. If declarer has the missing ♣, you can give partner a ruff. But even if declarer has no more ♣s, he can set up 3rd ♣ trick, by force, via the ruffing finesse, without your help, so a ♣ return might sacrifice a tempo but not a trick. Neverthess, If declarer had a losing ♠, mgoetze would not be posing this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted February 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2015 So I felt like double would have asked for a club lead, but I was unsure. Maybe I should have just shown the bidding and polled what people thought double would ask for. Anyway [hv=sn=phil&s=SQ8643HJT984DJ5C9&wn=sillafu&w=SJ52H752DAQ6CKQT8&nn=mgoetze&n=SAKT97HDT8CAJ6543&en=tsadek&e=SHAKQ63DK97432C72&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=P1C1S2D4S5D5S6DPPP&p=C9CKCAC7SAD2S4S2D3D5DAD8DQDTD4DJCQC3C2S3C8CJD7&c=12]400|300[/hv] I appreciate nige1's sympathy. In hindsight returning a club would clearly have been correct but for some reason I felt that I would have a good chance of defeating the contract even without it; East turned out to be stronger than I expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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