manudude03 Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 [hv=pc=n&s=s3hkt62dakqt864cq&n=s65ha9875dj9c9632&d=w&v=b&b=4&a=pp1s2d4spp5dppp]266|200[/hv] West leads the ♠A and switches to the ♣7. East tries to cash KA, but you ruff at trick 3. Plainly the contract depends on playing the hearts without loss. Plan the play (Int+ hide answers). edit: This was played against the gibs, so 5 card majors, and lead low from 3 otherwise 4th best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 What signals do the opps use, and what do they tell me ? 4 or 5 card majors ? I'm going to play a diamond to dummy and if all follow ruff a club high then repeat that process to work out how the clubs break, draw the remaining trump if any then assume spades are 5-5 if they're playing 5M and count the hand accordingly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted August 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 It was probably too open ended for this forum, but Cyberyeti's line is correct. Crossing over to dummy to ruff the clubs on this occasion revealed that East had 5 clubs (West showed out on the 4th club), trumps were also 2-2. Therefore East must have been either 5125 or less likely 6025. If he is 6025, you can't pick up QJxx with West so you will always be -1. However, when he is 5125, your only chance is that East had a singleton honour, and that was how it turned out to be. Making this was worth 9.8 imps. [hv=http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?bbo=y&lin=pn|manudude03,~~M8129ul7,~~M2590uti,~~M2946dz8|st%7C%7Cmd%7C2S3H26TKD468TQKACQ%2CS249TAH34QD27C78J%2CS56H5789AD9JC2369%2C%7Crh%7C%7Cah%7CBoard%2036%7Csv%7Cb%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C1S%7Can%7CMajor%20suit%20opening%20--%205%2B%20%21S%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points%20%7Cmb%7C2D%7Can%7CTwo-level%20overcall%20--%205%2B%20%21D%3B%2010%2B%20HCP%3B%2011%7Cmb%7C4S%7Can%7CPreemptive%20raise%20--%204%2B%20%21S%3B%209-%20HCP%3B%206%2B%20total%20points%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C5D%7Can%7C18%2B%20HCP%3B%20strong%20rebiddable%20%21D%3B%2018-%20total%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cpc%7CSA%7Cpc%7CS5%7Cpc%7CS8%7Cpc%7CS3%7Cpc%7CC7%7Cpc%7CC2%7Cpc%7CCK%7Cpc%7CCQ%7Cpc%7CCA%7Cpc%7CDT%7Cpc%7CC8%7Cpc%7CC3%7Cpc%7CD4%7Cpc%7CD7%7Cpc%7CD9%7Cpc%7CD5%7Cpc%7CC6%7Cpc%7CC4%7Cpc%7CDQ%7Cpc%7CCJ%7Cpc%7CD6%7Cpc%7CD2%7Cpc%7CDJ%7Cpc%7CD3%7Cpc%7CC9%7Cpc%7CCT%7Cpc%7CDK%7Cpc%7CS4%7Cpc%7CHK%7Cpc%7CH3%7Cpc%7CH5%7Cpc%7CHJ%7Cpc%7CHT%7Cpc%7CH4%7Cpc%7CH7%7Cpc%7CS7%7Cpc%7CH2%7Cpc%7CHQ%7Cpc%7CHA%7Cpc%7CC5%7Cpc%7CH9%7Cpc%7CSK%7Cpc%7CH6%7Cpc%7CST%7Cpc%7CS6%7Cpc%7CSJ%7Cpc%7CD8%7Cpc%7CS9%7Cpc%7CDA%7Cpc%7CS2%7Cpc%7CH8%7Cpc%7CSQ%7C]399|300[/hv] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillPatch Posted August 23, 2015 Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 It was probably too open ended for this forum,...Presumably a well written intentional understatement. An ordinary intermediate might find a winning play after dropping a quack by recognizing the application of the rule of restricted choice. Only a better intermediate is likely to find the counting play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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