[eagles123]

All MP

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third one big tank before final pass by North



Cheers,

Eagles

[awm]

4th best heart, spade ten, heart ten for me.

[mikeh]

awm, on 2019-November-21, 15:36, said:

4th best heart, spade ten, heart ten for me.

I agree but my bet is that the big tank on the 3rd hand was north looking at 6 hearts.

The other logical reason for a tank is 'extra values', but we have virtually zero hope in that case, hence I'd guess that he has 6=4 reds.

However, the alternative, being (for me) the spade A is incredibly committal...though this may well be a hand where we do need to take a big position at trick 1. I did upvote your post, so am not saying I'd lead the Ace.

[Cyberyeti]

mikeh, on 2019-November-21, 16:02, said:

I agree but my bet is that the big tank on the 3rd hand was north looking at 6 hearts.

The other logical reason for a tank is 'extra values', but we have virtually zero hope in that case, hence I'd guess that he has 6=4 reds.

However, the alternative, being (for me) the spade A is incredibly committal...though this may well be a hand where we do need to take a big position at trick 1. I did upvote your post, so am not saying I'd lead the Ace.

Well it looks like some or all of a 6th heart and/or a 5th (or 6th)diamond

[nige1]

#1 eagles123 'MP.'
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I rank
1. ♥4. Perhaps dummy has only ♠s.
2. ♥J.
3. ♦9.
4. ♠3.
5. ♣6

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#2 eagles123 'MP'
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I rank
1. ♠T. Passive because dummy seems to have few values.
2. ♦4. Might result in a simpler defence.
3. ♥2.
4. ♣4.

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#3 eagles123' MP. big tank before final pass by North'
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I rank
1. ♦3. Dummy's hesitation implies good ♥s. A ♦ lead might remove an entry.
2. ♥T. Perhaps cards lie badly for declarer and a passive defence is best,
3. ♠A. Candidate for Brilliancy Prize.
4. ♣4.

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[Tramticket]

1) J of hearts.
2) 10 of spades.
3) 5 of diamonds (a double from partner would suggest a heart lead for us).

[KingCovert]

I agree with Nigel on the third hand, we need to cut down on entries to dummy. Partner has a heart stop, because if partner doesn't have a heart stop this hand is over. So, partner has a heart stop. Let's not burn it at trick 1. A heart lead is just never right here.

EDIT: It could be right, but never correct. That's probably a better way to phrase this.

[ahydra]

Tramticket, on 2019-November-22, 07:16, said:

1) J of hearts.
2) 10 of spades.
3) 5 of diamonds (a double from partner would suggest a heart lead for us).

These were my choices too. Admittedly I haven't looked at possible layouts of the hearts on the first one to see whether the J or the small is better.

ahydra

[eagles123]

Board 1 - I lead a low heart: Spade would be 8 tricks, Heart 11: Opps had a mixup about stayman but hey I don't think it influenced my lead

Board 2 - I lead a diamond which I think in hindsight was just a mistake. My feeling at the time was i should just lead my strongest suit, but I missed the inference that there was no stayman so partner was likely to have a decent major. I have no idea why 2N wasn't raised to 3N btw, but it's not relevant.

Board 3 - I lead the Spade Ace, which I think again was short sighted. It's an interesting hand and I'm not sure how it would have been played had I led something different, but clearly my lead wasn't optimal.

For interest the hands are from here: https://www.bridgewe...b=queenofhearts - and no this isn't to show our great results, we had a crap session lol


Board 2, 7 and 9 for the three boards.

Thanks,

Eagles

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

given this is MP, you want to go safe.

#1 Heart, I guess this means the Jack
#2 Major, I guess this means spade
#3 Hearts