WesleyC Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract... [hv=pc=n&s=s7653hk5dq752cq95&n=sahj93dak84ca6432&d=w&v=n&b=12&a=1h2cp3cp3hp3nppp]266|200[/hv] West leads the ♥A, East following small. West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage). Plan the play! If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 [hv=pc=n&s=s7653hk5dq752cq95&n=sahj93dak84ca6432&d=w&v=n&b=12&a=1h2cp3cp3hp3nppp]266|200|Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract...West leads the ♥A, East following small. West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage). Plan the play! If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T.[/hv] You might try leading ♣9, playing RHO for ♣JT8 or ♣JT7 or ♣K87 or any ♣K doubleton This seems a better hope than.♣Q, playing RHO for ♣JT doubleton 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alok c Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Low to DA,low club from dummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_20686 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract... [hv=pc=n&s=s7653hk5dq752cq95&n=sahj93dak84ca6432&d=w&v=n&b=12&a=1h2cp3cp3hp3nppp]266|200[/hv] West leads the ♥A, East following small. West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage). Plan the play! If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T. Given the heart card of the 6 at the second round its basically impossible for lho not to have the club K, and almost certainly the J as well. Unless you think lho is just messing with you. He cannot have neither black K and most likely has both, but with stuff in both why not signal for a spade in the unlikely event of partner getting in? Can declarer ever make if he cannot cash the clubs, why bother signalling for one? I honestly don't see what else i can do except play west for kx club given the carding. So I have to table the club 9 and see what happens. If it runs round to the J or T I will play ace of clubs and hope that the K drops. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesleyC Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 At the table LHO held [Kxx AQT9xxx T Kx] so the winning line (which I didn't find) was to run the ♣9. Well done to nige and phil for finding it here! I hadn't seen this suit combination before and it is actually quite complex.As Nige points out running the 9 wins on quite a few layouts (although not JTx - Kx if RHO can work out to unblock the ♣K). However, I would also often expect to succeed if LHO holds Jx or Tx and errors by covering the ♣9 - a pretty easy mistake to make! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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