MrAce Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 [hv=pc=n&s=sak4hkt7dj74ckj92&n=sqt876haqj8da986c]133|200[/hv] Team match.Silent opponents.North plays 6♠ LEAD : ♣5 (they lead 2-4th) You try J of clubs but W produces Q..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyams Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 Is it OK to assume West was not dealer? A potential line is to play East for ♦Tx and thus try an intrafinesse. However, if West was indeed dealer and passed, then that line become much lower %. All indications are West holds ♣AQ(xxx) and is very unlikely to also hold ♦KQxx and pass in the first seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinksy Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 Timo, I suggest editing the name of the thread to make the problem easier :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jexa_ Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 [hv=pc=n&s=sak4hkt7dj74ckj92&n=sqt876haqj8da986c]133|200[/hv] Team match.Silent opponents.North plays 6♠ LEAD : ♣5 (they lead 2-4th) You try J of clubs but W produces Q..... hmmm i can see a line but it would be a miracle if it succeds :D edit : ok maybe its your only chance. Ruff the club,give em a diamond, play two rounds of spades, play hearts discarding a diamond on 4th heart, cash Ace of diamonds and ruff a diamond. Claim rest. You need 3-2 spades break, 4-2 hearts break (or 5-1), 3-3 diamonds break. The one with 3 spades should also hold 4 hearts(or 5) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaitlyn S Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 Timo, I suggest editing the name of the thread to make the problem easier :PI would appreciate knowing how to do that - I've tried to change the name of a couple of my threads and it wasn't obvious how to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAce Posted November 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 Sorry all, it is 6 ♠. not 6 ♦ as in the title.Perhaps a mod can fix it. Is it OK to assume West was not dealer? West was not dealer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAce Posted November 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 hmmm i can see a line but it would be a miracle if it succeds :D edit : ok maybe its your only chance. Ruff the club,give em a diamond, play two rounds of spades, play hearts discarding a diamond on 4th heart, cash Ace of diamonds and ruff a diamond. Claim rest. You need 3-2 spades break, 4-2 hearts break (or 5-1), 3-3 diamonds break. The one with 3 spades should also hold 4 hearts(or 5) ♠ are 3-2 ♥ are 3-3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaitlyn S Posted November 2, 2016 Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 I would appreciate knowing how to do that - I've tried to change the name of a couple of my threads and it wasn't obvious how to do that.I see a few possibilities.1. Play East for ♦10x a la Shyams..rd 7.2. Play East for ♦K10 or ♦Q 10. This has lower odds unless West was a passed hand.3. Play East for ♦10xx and try to guess West's distribution to endplay him. West must have at most 2 spades. You need to play for a distribution that will allow you to make when West gives you a club trick (either by a dummy reversal or by having East helplessly follow to four hearts.) Since you need to strip hearts, I don't think the reversal works so West has to be 2-2-3-6 or 2-2-4-5. Draw 2 trump and take 2 hearts, lead a diamond to the 7. Oh wait, there's a bonus here! If West wins a doubleton honor... oh nuts, West has to be 2-2-2-7, not much chance.4. Give up a diamond early (low to 7), draw 2 trump, and play four hearts to discard a diamond. Ruff a diamond. Hope someone is 2-2-3-6. Of course, if West has S-Jxxx you have to hope for a diamond miracle. If both opponents follow to 3 hearts, you still can try to pin the ♦10 if West won the [d]7 with an honor. With no great conviction, I'm going to guess line #4 is the best and that's the one I'm going with. EDIT to add: Cross posted with Mr. Ace. His new information makes my line less likely but since I tried it. I saw both opponents follow to three hearts and it's too late! I no longer have the entries to play for doubleton ♦10 (not to mention that West can give me a nasty guess by leading a diamond upon winning the first diamond.) So I think I have failed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAce Posted November 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 I had 5♠+4♥+1♦ top tricks = 10Needed 2 more. I decided I need miracle in ♦ suit. If I can make 2♦ tricks, that brings me to 11 tricks but then again I may be able to make 6 spade tricks instead of 5, which requires 3-2 ♠.Making 2 ♦ tricks needs someone holding KQ tide ♦ or Tx doubleton ♦ or HT doubleton with East. So diamonds being 3-3 would not do any good for me. I needed them to be 4-2.I ruffed the lead and played small ♦ towards J74 and inserted the 7. West took with Q and played K of diamonds, rescuing us from a very important decision. I won with the A and cashed Q and K of trumps in this order. Everyone followed.Now I ruffed 2nd ♣Went to ♥ T and ruffed 3rd ♣Cleared the last trump and claimed. W had J93954KQAQ843 Problem is, I have no idea whether I would get it right had W not played ♦K after Q. If he has KQxx I needed to play ♥J from dummy. If tide KQ as it was, I needed to cash A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAce Posted November 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2016 I see a few possibilities.1. Play East for ♦10x a la Shyams..rd 7.2. Play East for ♦K10 or ♦Q 10. This has lower odds unless West was a passed hand.3. Play East for ♦10xx and try to guess West's distribution to endplay him. West must have at most 2 spades. You need to play for a distribution that will allow you to make when West gives you a club trick (either by a dummy reversal or by having East helplessly follow to four hearts.) Since you need to strip hearts, I don't think the reversal works so West has to be 2-2-3-6 or 2-2-4-5. Draw 2 trump and take 2 hearts, lead a diamond to the 7. Oh wait, there's a bonus here! If West wins a doubleton honor... oh nuts, West has to be 2-2-2-7, not much chance.4. Give up a diamond early (low to 7), draw 2 trump, and play four hearts to discard a diamond. Ruff a diamond. Hope someone is 2-2-3-6. Of course, if West has S-Jxxx you have to hope for a diamond miracle. If both opponents follow to 3 hearts, you still can try to pin the ♦10 if West won the [d]7 with an honor. With no great conviction, I'm going to guess line #4 is the best and that's the one I'm going with. EDIT to add: Cross posted with Mr. Ace. His new information makes my line less likely but since I tried it. I saw both opponents follow to three hearts and it's too late! I no longer have the entries to play for doubleton ♦10 (not to mention that West can give me a nasty guess by leading a diamond upon winning the first diamond.) So I think I have failed. No you did not fail. when you played line#4, W wins diamond 7 with Q and plays K. I think you would make it easily like I did after this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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