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#1 User is offline   pclayton 

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Posted 2005-October-25, 17:19

Matchpoints

Pard opens 1♣, pass on right, you pass, LHO reopens with 1♠. You and your pard pass for the rest.

2N on right, 3♥ on left, 3N on right.

Scoring: MP



You lead the 2♦ (5th best), small, Jack, small

Pard leads back the 4♦, 10 from declarer and you win the Queen (a tricky king is possible too).

What do you play at T3?
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Posted 2005-October-25, 17:29

First of all, I would NOT pass, MP or IMP.

It becomes apparent that pd had 4423 distribution. Continue with D to kill an entry to declarer's hand.
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Posted 2005-October-25, 17:42

i'd lead a diamond also...
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Posted 2005-October-26, 04:07

I don't think declarer is short of entries. It seems like the last chance we have to push something through dummy, so I'd try a spade (seems safer than a heart).
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Posted 2005-October-26, 08:13

play a middle ♦, to make declarer's life hard


Edit: Damn I didn't see the full auiction, declarer already knows we have nothing else. I play a top ♥
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Posted 2005-October-26, 10:42

Let's count first:

Declarer has at most 2 spades and 3 hearts and exactly3 diamonds, so at least 5 clubs. Partner has exactly 2 diamonds and opened 1C holding at most 3. Conclusion: partner is exactly 4-4-2-3 and declarer is exactly 2-3-3-5.

We could now try to guess which major to lead, but it seems better to let declarer playt the majors. I play a diamond now, hoping that declarer does not have enough entries to develop clubs and that partner can later endplay dummy to get 2 major suit tricks.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2005-October-26, 11:03

If declarer plays the major suits himself, won't it be easy for him to endplay partner? I think there is a good case to play a major suit through now, while partner can get out with a club.
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Posted 2005-October-26, 14:42

Another diamond was the big winner - it took the entry out of declarer's hand for the clubs.

Your pard (me) held: AKxx, KJ9x, Jx, 9xx. I was soo looking forward to creating a board lock for declarer for a likely -2.

My partner that held this hand shifted to a club - since he didn't have an entry to cash his diamonds (no sh^^ - he was a passed hand). Declarer smiled and played the Ace, and a low spade toward his J-9 and we are toast on a stick :D
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Posted 2005-October-27, 07:38

It would be better to me not to count :)
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