[eagles123]

This is for N/B

your opponents have reached 4s after the bidding shown in the diagram

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for whatever reason you decide to lead a low heart to partners queen which holds the trick.
Partner then plays the Ace of diamonds followed by a low diamond which you play low to and is won by dummys eight
declarer draws trumps in two rounds
then he ruffs a heart in dummy
then he plays the king of diamond to the last remaining spot card from p and a low one from dummy
then he plays a low club from hand


I know the defence so far is far from ideal but this is what happened at the table (hand slightly modified)
What is the danger here?

what can you do about it?

Eagles

[gordontd]

eagles123, on 2014-August-05, 15:18, said:

for whatever reason you decide to lead a low heart to partners queen which holds the trick.
Partner then plays the Ace of diamonds followed by a low diamond which you play low to and is won by dummys eight
declarer draws trumps in two rounds
then he ruffs a heart in dummy
then he plays the king of diamond to the last remaining spot card from p and a low one from dummy
then he plays a low club from hand

This description suggests there have been at least two leads out of turn. How was I on lead to play a low heart to partner's queen? How could declarer lead the DK when he had just ruffed a heart in dummy?

[eagles123]

sorry posted this up totally wrong

[Wackojack]

Your description (if a bit out of sequence) indicates that declarer is 4234. Overcalled 1♠ on AQxx. Partner is 2533. Then there is no endplay since a ruff/discard does declarer no good even if you do not unblock with the King. My guess is that you neglected to say that partner discarded on the 2nd trump, and therefore declarer started with 3 clubs and partner started with Q10xx.

Some obsevations about the initial defence:

The 2♥ lead expecting (hoping) partner to have the queen is a suit preference lead asking for partner to return a club. Just holding ♣Kx is not a good reason to make this play. Partner didnt recognise this and played ♦A and a low diamond. Did partner continued because you incorrectly encouraged? Partner's continuation was a low ♦ indicating an even number of diamonds and strongly suggesting 2 for a diamond ruff. This was not the case.