[mikeh]

Thx for the posts.

I didn't and don't think that playing trump at trick 2 was an error... I wanted to leave LHO an easy spade exit if she held the trump A, and it seemed unlikely that rho would really be endplayed if I stripped spades and led a trump.. it would require an unlikely, altho certainly possible, combination of things. I didn't want a diamond switch by LHO.

So I got the expected spade play and came to hand.

Where I failed, and where Apollo, for one, went right, was inferring that there was a slight likelihood of rho having the club length.

I led the club Jack.. knowing that I was going to look silly if lho held the stiff king, but that would have given her 5=2=5=1 shape and I felt that that was unlikely... plus I had potential entry problems later if I led low to the Q and it held

LHO covered and now I returned to my hand in trump to lead a club up. So far so good, but then I hooked the 9... if it held, then I was (virtually) home. And if it lost, I was ok if rho held 10x.. he was now endplayed. As it was, he had an easy club return after he won the 10.

I think it is a very close thing, but I do think that, on the information I had, playing rho for 3 clubs was slightly superior.. win the club Q and then exit a club.

BTW, I was morally certain, once the club K was onside, that LHO was unlikely to hold the diamond A... Jxxxx Ax Axxx Kx (more or less) would have been her worst hand and many would overcall 1♠ or double 1♥.

[pork rind]

QUOTE (pork rind @ Apr 16 2008, 03:42 PM)
just lead the 8 of clubs and run it if not covered. rho is endplayed
Yes, this will definitely hold it to -1.



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[Winstonm]

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[pork rind]

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