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Posted 2011-January-05, 13:59
Andy, I play a diamond after ruffing the 3rd heart.
This is too obvious, and perhaps I am being set up here
This is too obvious, and perhaps I am being set up here
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Posted 2011-January-05, 15:33
Phil, on 2011-January-05, 13:59, said:
Andy, I play a diamond after ruffing the 3rd heart.
This is too obvious, and perhaps I am being set up here
This is too obvious, and perhaps I am being set up here
I'm not trying to trick you. Maybe I've misanalysed.
You've taken two ruffs in hand, and one sucessful ruffing diamond finesse. LHO still has ♦Kx left. When you play a third diamond, he plays low. Presumably you diascard, and RHO ruffs. Now the defence plays two rounds of clubs, and you're in dummy, with one trump left in each hand and some non-good diamonds.
I think the best you can do now is to cash ♠A and crossruff your remaining trumps. Hence by correctly reading the diamond layout you've managed to scramble the six tricks that would have been easy in 3♦.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2011-January-05, 18:26
it will take some time to construct a layout where clubs make more tricks (but I am sure it exists), however it is easy to put an opponent with ♣AKQJ10 and have a laugh
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Posted 2011-January-05, 19:22
3♦. I am tempted to add wtp. To my mind, the only rational alternative is pass--but if they have slam values, they usually won't stop to hit 2♠.
No one asked, but if 2♠ were an undisciplined weak two, then it's 3♦ omgwtfp.
No one asked, but if 2♠ were an undisciplined weak two, then it's 3♦ omgwtfp.
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Posted 2011-January-06, 10:55
I agree that this is an easy 3♦ call for reasons well stated by others. Results at local club, with some good and some not so good players, were all over the place. Your RHO held 6♠, and your P held something like AQ9xxx, Qxx, xx, Jx. FWIW, 2♠x was -1400 for an average minus. If you wound up in 3♣ (presumably via 2nt), you went for -1700 and a zero. If you bid 3♦, then in a few cases, opps didn't x, and played only game, and you got a good score. If they x'd, you were -1400, which is what I did. In other cases, they bid 6♥ and made it or not, depending on a guess for the ♥ Q.
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Posted 2011-January-06, 11:32
Thought about this hand a lot, and I have come around to agreeing that 3♣ rates to be a horrible spot even if pard is a primo 1-3 in the minors. The handling charges just get to be too much.
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