antonylee Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 [hv=pc=n&s=sajhkqj2dqj9cqt32&w=sk963h985da76cj94&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=1n(11-14%2C%20can%20have%205cM)dppp]266|200[/hv]Matchpoints, club game.The HK goes to to partner's 4 and declarer's ace. Declarer returns a spade and you decide to hop ace, partner playing the 2.1. What does partner's 2 mean? Count? Attitude? SP? (You have agreed UCDA, usually attitude to partner's leads and count to declarer's).2. How do you defend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMoe Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Would suspect count is most prevalent unless we agreed to play obvious switch - then it's suit preference. So either ♥ H or ♣x ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekthen Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 The 2♠ should be count, so p has 3♠. What was 4♥? Would he encourage with the 10? Is he giving count, because the K has been lead? If the ♥ were 33 declarer might have held up the A. Why did p play the 4 if they are 33? Maybe he has 1043 and did not want to play the 10? If p has 4 he has the ten as he did not play the 3. If p has 2 cards he may have the ten I assume East has a 12 count and p has 4. Any less and he surely runs and there is no room for more. Can we defeat this contract if p does not have ten ♥? Seems unlikely to me. I would play the 2♥ next. This only costs if declarer started with A10(x) which seems unlikely on the play to date, although I do not know the methods well enough to be sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodepp Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 I think we're reading way too much into pard's ♠2. Without going into the nuts and bolts too much: We know partner has 2-4 hcp and thus one useful card - the ♠Q, ♦K or ♣A/K. I think declarer would remove 1NTX to a five-card suit if he had one, so partner has at least three spades. Long story short, I think we need partner to have at least four spades to the 10 to be setting this regardless of what card partner has. I don't think we're setting this unless partner has the ♠Q (I leave it to the reader to work out why the other cards rate not to work). I'm exiting a spade - if declarer flies, we can cross to partner's ♥10 (or spot) to cash out. If declarer ducks, I cash out hearts and exit, prepared to dump the ♦QJ if declarer plays that suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alok c Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 delete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifluffette Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Simple case of Smith Echo. Partner's card, when count irrelevant, says I like your lead or I dont like your lead. You can play it std or udca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo25 Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I agree it is Smith. Count doesn't give partner any useful information. If you don't play Smith, it's lavinthal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesleyC Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 As others have mentioned, you might consider adding the Smith Echo to your partnership agreements. Regarding this hand, what is the rush to win the ♠A? Looks better to play the ♠J and at least gather an extra round of information before being on lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 As others have mentioned, you might consider adding the Smith Echo to your partnership agreements.A pair certainly might consider it but to write that it definitely is Smith without any agreement about it is ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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