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#1 User is offline   plaur 

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Posted 2008-December-16, 17:10

1♠ 2♦
2NT 4♠
partner leads ♥8
♥8,2,Q,4
♥A,J,6,3

What do you play at trick 3 and why?
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Posted 2008-December-16, 17:35

♣

If partner has a ♦ trick, I don't think it's going away. ♠ looks like it can only help partner.

My only other thought is a ♥. Partner normally shouldn't lead this way if a ruff could cost her a natural trump trick, although there are enough points in the deck in this case that partner may have been hard up for a lead.

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Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

"gwnn" said:

rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
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Posted 2008-December-16, 18:20

So if declarer has something like AQJxx Jx Hx Kxx, we need to play a club now. If he has something like AQ9xx Jx KQx KQx, we need to play a heart. Obviously these both work missing one of the top diamonds too.

Seems like rather a guess to me.
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Posted 2008-December-18, 10:29


I led back ♥7 where declarer dropped a club. Partner lead a club back and declarer took a spade hook into partners Q and went down one.
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Posted 2008-December-18, 10:55

I think it might be better to play a club at trick 2.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-December-18, 13:57

han, on Dec 18 2008, 04:55 PM, said:

I think it might be better to play a club at trick 2.

I think it might be better too, although it looks a bit silly when partner has a led a singleton heart. I don't think there's an obvious answer to this, except that once we've decided to cash the ace of hearts it seems a bit churlish not to play a third one.
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