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Two sick lead problems at matchpoints
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Posted 2008-April-12, 05:26
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Posted 2008-April-12, 08:01
skaeran, on Apr 11 2008, 01:09 PM, said:
zasanya, on Apr 11 2008, 05:58 PM, said:
pclayton, on Apr 11 2008, 01:07 AM, said:
jdonn, on Apr 10 2008, 04:17 PM, said:
2. More strong feelings haha. In practice I see these underleads to get a ruff work almost never, I simply don't do them any more unless it's vs a slam where I think anything else is totally hopeless. They only work well in books and old stories. I would go ace of hearts.
Agree with the casino numbers guy.
In the second case P has bid 2♥ so between the 2 of us we must have at least 9 cards of ♥.What odds would casino guys offer on 1of us having K of !h?
What kind of joke is this? Our 6-card suit lacks the king, partner presumably holds 3 and opps a combined 4. To me that means it's 4-3 against partner holding the king.
The odds are better than what have been quoted here, in my opinion, but even if we accept the '4-3 against ', aren't they reasonable odds fot attempting a top?
As for a joke can't resist telling a story.I was dealer at white against red and had ♣ AKQxxxx and a ♦ void and opened only 3♣ and ops reached 6♠ after Blackwooding and I led (what else!) a small ♣ and my heart almost stopped when I saw ♣ Jxx in dummy.Declarer was one of those guys who call 'small please' almost before dummy comes down.My Partner's 10 won and after a few agonizing moments I got my ruff .
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Posted 2008-April-12, 09:38
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Club was, in fact, correct. Only lead that really blows it is a heart. At the table a diamond was led (not by me) and declarer guessed the hQ wrong to go down 1.
Scoring: MP
Those who underled in hearts struck gold, but not because of club ruffs. I tried the underlead in diamonds, but that didn't work so well. Fortunately, it didn't matter, since declarer is likely to get it right anyway.