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#1 User is offline   Fluffy 

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Posted 2010-December-30, 17:43



You can see it in the diagram I hope

♠10 lead, east discouraged with ♠4
♣J run to ♣Q

Now the ke point, west led ♦3 his smallest diamond to show interest in the suit, but east won ♦Q giving declarer either ♦10 or ♦9, and returned a heart.
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Posted 2010-December-30, 18:13

I don't think anyone's really to blame. From West's point of view, South might have a singleton 8 of diamonds, in which case a low diamond is the best way to give him a guess. From East's point of view, South's hearts might be AQx, in which case what he did was right. South did quite well.
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Posted 2010-December-30, 19:47

Are we playing partner to have led a low diamond from 953 with decent hearts? I think the actual layout is more likely.
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Posted 2010-December-31, 06:36

Don't give attitude at trick 1 with AKQx in dummy.
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Posted 2010-December-31, 09:04

Tough. I don't see that east knows enough to stick in the 8. But he should have continued diamonds. Switching to hearts is not giving enough weight to partner's encouraging ♦3.
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Posted 2010-December-31, 11:56

View Posthan, on 2010-December-31, 06:36, said:

Don't give attitude at trick 1 with AKQx in dummy.


indeed. more useful is suit preference
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