Which card would you play?

[Dinarius]

You are defending against a suit contract.

 

Your partner leads the Ace in a side suit.

 

Dummy puts down Q,10,9,X, and declarer plays the X.

 

You hold J,X.

 

Which card do you play?

 

Thanks.

 

D.

[billw55]

Depends, what is my trump holding? Any other tricks I can expect to take? What is in dummy? Never mind what the actual contract is. We really need a full hand and auction to answer this kind of thing.

But if you are asking how to get a ruff, the answer is to play whichever card is encouraging in your methods.

[PhilG007]

You are defending against a suit contract.

 

Your partner leads the Ace in a side suit.

 

Dummy puts down Q,10,9,X, and declarer plays the X.

 

You hold J,X.

 

Which card do you play?

 

Thanks.

 

 

If the lead also shows the King, then play the Jack,starting a high-low peter

This is standard play

[kenberg]

It is highly unlikely that my J will take a trick whatever I do so I just give count. It is then likely to go K and another that I ruff, and this might not be all that great depending on a lot of things, but partner expects me to tell him if i can ruff the third round and I can, so I tell him. Say declarer has three cards in the suit. If I persuade partner to shift declarer will later lead toward the Q. He will lose to the AK ony, and he will still have a pitch on the fourth card. I would have to be pretty certain of the whole hand before I would do anything other than give count. usually I am not that certain.

[Dinarius]

Thanks for the replies.

 

Yes, in our methods, from A,K or A,K,x,x... we lead the A.

 

So, partner either had one of the above, or he was leading from A,x,x... in order to get a look at dummy, before proceeding further.

 

My holding was actually, J,2, so I played the J to give count.

 

Partner in fact held A,K,x,x.

 

He now played small taking the J for a singleton.

 

I disagreed with this reading, as do you above.

 

That's all I wanted to know.

 

Thanks.

 

D.

[Zelandakh]

He now played small taking the J for a singleton.

If your partner finds this sort of position confusing, you might consider switching to upside down carding.

[SteveMoe]

Another viewpoint is the the J is a self revealing doubleton. I use the Jack to ask for a switch. UDCA can remove some bad temptations.

[Winstonm]

I think the main issue here is that declarer played out of turn.