[Hanoi5]

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Teams, ♠K led. Clubs are 1-1, the doubler holding the small one.

[SimonFa]

Hanoi5, on 2013-November-09, 21:37, said:

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Teams, ♠K led. Clubs are 1-1, the doubler holding the small one.

Edit. Deleted. Looking at what I wanted to see not what was there.

[nige1]

Hanoi5, on 2013-November-09, 21:37, said:

Teams, ♠K led. Clubs are 1-1, the doubler holding the small one.

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Can't see any clever line so I'll break the ice with: Ruff the ♠ lead. Cash ♣A and ♥A (discarding a ♦), ruff a ♥. (♥K does not appear). Guess ♦, probably finessing ♦J.

[RSClyde]

I'll ruff a heart to dummy and lead the J of diamonds. If there's no cover then I'll normally go up with the K in such a situation but here the bidding seems to strongly suggest that west has the ace so I'll let it go. I can probably gain some information by ruffing the Q of hearts to dummy, though I'm still not sure that it helps if the K appears. Whatever the case if ever intend to go up with the K of diamonds, I should hold off on discarding on the ace of hearts: why give them the information?

This doesn't deserve to make after this auction. If you think that 6♣ is there then bid it over 4♥, since that's apparently not the case, why bid it now? It can't look right to "save" in 6♣ over 5♥.

[gszes]

3 reasonable possibilities

1-- hoping lho has the singleton or doubleton heart K along with the
dia A with or w/o the Q.

2. play rho for dia A

3. play rho for dia Q

the final x seems to make line 2 a poor choice since it is hard to imagine
a holding for lho to x w/o holding the dia A.

Line 3 is ice cold if rho has the dia Q with or without the unlikely ace.
Line 1 is a bit different and seems anti percentage but it fits the
bidding quite well (rho holding something like xxx Jxxxxxxx x x and has
the extra chance of falling back on rho having the dia Q.

trick 2 play the heart A (assuming no heart K) ruff a small heart and if no heart
K appears fall back to line 3 and take the dia finesse.
If the heart k appears come back to hand with a trump play the heart Q pitching
a dia and lead a dia toward the J intending to take a ruffing finesse against LHO
for dia A. If this works make sure you thank lho for not leading the dia A and
giving p a dia ruff (just kidding).