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Leading, we had 62% going into the last round 
This, (top board) was no fun to play, I don't think I've ever taken only 3
tricks as declarer.
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Posted 2012-May-13, 00:02
We've just come 2nd in A/X Leading, we had 62% going into the last round
This, (top board) was no fun to play, I don't think I've ever taken only 3
tricks as declarer.
Leading, we had 62% going into the last round This, (top board) was no fun to play, I don't think I've ever taken only 3
tricks as declarer.
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Posted 2012-May-13, 10:01
Well, EW missed 3NT, so wtp? (West seems to have a perfectly sane 1NT call over 1C)
Also, I think double-dummy you can be held to just your two aces! (CAKQ, then heart towards K, say South wins and plays a diamond. Then DA, DK, D to 9, DJ throwing heart and a spade)
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(West seems to have a perfectly sane 1NT call over 1C)Also, I think double-dummy you can be held to just your two aces! (CAKQ, then heart towards K, say South wins and plays a diamond. Then DA, DK, D to 9, DJ throwing heart and a spade)
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Posted 2012-May-13, 10:11
That is elegant but you could also just get a heart ruff to beat it 5 on normal defense (say west guessed to lead a diamond, east wins and shifts to a heart, west continues a heart, south plays let's say a diamond hoping to get a ruff...west gives his partner a heart ruff, east plays trumps, west clears trumps and plays a diamond).
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Posted 2012-May-13, 11:01
I don't know the strength of the A/X field that was played in, but 3NT looks like it's frequently down on a heart lead. Maybe after 3 rounds of hearts and 5 rounds of clubs declarer should guess the position since S is pressed for pitches. (giving up 2 spades looks like it marks the Q with N, so S would have diamond Q?)
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.
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Posted 2012-May-13, 12:40
kayin801, on 2012-May-13, 11:01, said:
I don't know the strength of the A/X field that was played in, but 3NT looks like it's frequently down on a heart lead. Maybe after 3 rounds of hearts and 5 rounds of clubs declarer should guess the position since S is pressed for pitches. (giving up 2 spades looks like it marks the Q with N, so S would have diamond Q?)
Declarer can play for South having the SA after the opening bid. (Slim odds on South having opened a flat 11 and North has just an ace) So he just plays a spade to the K after 5 rounds of clubs. South can win and cash his remaining heart(s), but that's it.
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