jahol Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 IMPs, both vulnerable, you had AQ---74---J943---107542 and the bidding was simple 1 heart(LHO)---1 spade(CHO)---3 hearts(RHO, game invitation)---pass(ME)4 hearts(LHO)---pass..... I was affraid a bit of CHO first lead, but, finally, it was better than expected - spade 5 (fourth)(!), however the dummy was K103 KQ95 7652 Q8. The declarer (good player) was thinking over for some time and put spade 10, finally, what I covered with spade Q then. How should I continue? Should I cash spade ace and play my partner for fast entry and potential spade ruff or should I believe that the declarer is going to misguess spades? Jahol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awm Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I do not think declarer will play your partner for having underlead the space ace. After all, if you had just won Q from Qx a spade return would be immediate. And most partners don't underlead aces often. I'd cash and see if pd gives me a useful suit-preference signal. Partner should have something for the overcall after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 One thing is underleading an ace, and another very different is underleading AJ, declarer won't missguess this one. So the problem is if cashing will stablish a discard or not, IMO it will hardly do so cash and hope partner to signal his entry if he has its the proper defence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double ! Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 IF you cash ace, look at suit preference, and lead preferred suit, are you not potentially setting up the king for a pitch? I doubt that you're scoring a spade ruff on this hand. You're giving P J9xxx of spades for overcall? I suspect he has some outside cards/ controls, and possibly 6 spades or else opener bid 4H with xxx in spades, a possibility, I guess. Probably wrong, but I would track a diamond at trick 2, and keep spade ace for communication. I don't suspect that any club tricks that we might have are going anywhere, and I'm concerned about cashing ace of spades, setting up the king for a possible pitch when I suspect that we don't have trump control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 partner has, hopefully, about 10 hcp... they aren't in spades and they supposedly aren't in hearts... i wouldn't normally do this, but on this hand i think i'd hang on to the ♠A and lead the ♦J... maybe partner has ♦A,Q... the problem with the club lead is, if declarer has the ace he's gonna lead low to the Q anyway.. let's try for a couple of diamond tricks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahol Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Yes, I agree, that the defence is not that difficult. I cashed spade ace getting the lowest spade from my partner as preference signal. I continued with small club to the ace and partner played small spade back, ruffed and overruffed. We were able to cash one more diamond trick and the contract was one down. (With another defence, the contract would have been made, as the declarer would have discarded one diam on spade king eventually) Jah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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