Fluffy, on 2015-February-02, 05:24, said:
As a side note: don't you hate it when a player psyches a 2♣ opener preempting you out of your best contract?, that is why 2♣ opener psyches are forbidden in some countries.
I beg to differ.
First this is not a psyche, since a psyche is a deliberate decision to deviate from your agreements to deliver false information. An error in judgement is never a psyche because it is not deliberate.
People open such hands with a strong bid because they believe their hand has enough playing tricks for the bid, ignoring other criteria.
Jurisdiction, which tells people how to bid and forbids bad judgement is contrary to what the game is all about.
A different question is whether opponents can be damaged if the bid is not described or alerted properly.
el mister, on 2015-February-03, 05:18, said:
Is it obvious here that you need to ruff high in hand, to preserve a ruffing value in dummy with the club void? I believe this is the error pard made, and got a subsequent walloping.
The winning line is to play for spades 4-1, drawing one round of trumps with the AS, cash top heart, second round of trumps crossing to the JS, third round of trumps with KS and you're home. W can ruff one of your heart winners but has no exit card due to your club ruff on table.
This would be quite an intricate play by my standards, so I wondered if this was the sort of hand strong players would expect to get right.
Declarer's 2C opener was ♠8 ♥A ♦KQJT87653 ♣AQ. Would that be out of line in the EBU?
This is a typical double dummy line, which is silly single dummy.
The right line is to ruff high and play
two rounds of trumps ending in dummy.
If both follow to 2 rounds of trumps continue drawing trumps.
If not, cash your heart and play a third round of trumps to hand and feed the trump holder (presumably West) hearts.
I would expect any good player to get that right, since the line follows established principles of declarer play.
Rainer Herrmann