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Playing 5 spades

Lead: Club Ace[/hv]

 

Better skip the bidding, N-S reach 5 Spads in an uncontested auction.

 

After Club Ace lead, West shits to a Trumo, East playing the Ten.

 

Best line to make ?

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Seems that LHO holds 3 Trumps.

I'd play it save ( so i won't loose more than one):

 

ruff a , play a small and draw AK, ruff a small   at the table, draw a round of trump and exit in .

I make it if are 3-3 or the Q is double.

 

Is this line superior to AK of diamond and ruffing a diamond high, whcih would cater for diamonds 4-2 and trumps 3-1 ?

 

Consider it's Matchpoints.

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Seems that LHO holds 3 Trumps.

I'd play it save ( so i won't loose more than one):

 

ruff a , play a small and draw AK, ruff a small   at the table, draw a round of trump and exit in .

I make it if are 3-3 or the Q is double.

 

Is this line superior to AK of diamond and ruffing a diamond high, whcih would cater for diamonds 4-2 and trumps 3-1 ?

 

Consider it's Matchpoints.

I meant play: a small take it with A and continue with the K.

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win the trump in dummy...if they're 2-2 then:

 

ruff heart, DDDruff (claim if queen has dropped). If not then

ruff heart claim if hearts are 3-3.

 

If not then i go down.

 

if trumps are 3-1... play diamond diamond diamond ruff, heart ruff in hand, club ruff in dummy, heart ruff in hand. This needs DQ to drop in 3 rounds. If not i go down.

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win the trump in dummy...if they're 2-2 then:

 

ruff heart, DDDruff (claim if queen has dropped). If not then

ruff heart claim if hearts are 3-3.

 

If not then i go down.

 

if trumps are 3-1... play diamond diamond diamond ruff, heart ruff in hand, club ruff in dummy, heart ruff in hand. This needs DQ to drop in 3 rounds. If not i go down.

Justin,

 

in the actual hand, I did not play hearts right away but I decided to play immediately on diamonds to be able to ruff twice (ruffing high a 3rd diamond and ruffing the club loser).

 

I thought this line would cater for diamonds no worse than 4-2 as well as all positions with trumps 3-1.

 

On the other hand, I was worried that playing on hearts (low to K) would allow opps to reduce my ruffs.

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Obviously, diamonds were split 5-1 with trumps 2-2 :P, so the second diamond was ruffed and I lost 1C,1Druff and 1H for down 1.... :)

 

Can you comment on my reasoning ?

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