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3H - Hearts non-minimum.
You are playing 4 card majors 12-14 NT
Partner leads the 6♠, declarer plays 2 from dummy and you Q holds.
What now?
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Gold Cup II Defence problem
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Posted 2008-April-13, 04:05
(P)-1S-(P)-2S
(P)-P-(X)-P
(3H)-P-(4H)-P
(P)-P
3H - Hearts non-minimum.
You are playing 4 card majors 12-14 NT
Partner leads the 6♠, declarer plays 2 from dummy and you Q holds.
What now?
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Posted 2008-April-13, 08:52
diamond swich seems obvious, I wouldn't think more.
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Posted 2008-April-15, 15:45
Pretty hard to think of hand where it matters.
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Posted 2008-April-15, 17:55
win the spade and lead a club. If declarer wins, he can't get to hand to take the heart finesse.. and if he plays 2 rounds of hearts to stop the ruff, he is down on power. So he ducks and now partner continues clubs and declarer has nowhere to put his 2nd club loser.
This is not unreasonable, altho it also isn't unreasonable to hope for 2 diamond tricks and a slow club winner
This is not unreasonable, altho it also isn't unreasonable to hope for 2 diamond tricks and a slow club winner
Let me add a minor rant: at the table, we'd know what card declarer played to trick one, we'd know our spot card lead agreements, and we'd know the constraints on our 1N opening bids... will we do it with 5233 but not 5242, etc
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