Tuesday, August 11, 2009

LM Pairs declarer play

I declared this hand in the LM pairs:


Q9x
Kx
KQxx
Jxxx

KTxx
AQT8
xxx
Kx

1D (X) XX (1H)
X (P) 2D (P)
2N (P) 3N


Not really sure how I feel about our choices in this auction; we definitely had some disagreement about whether 2N should be forcing.

Anyway, in 3N, the defense started CA, club to my K and I played a diamond to the K which held. Not sure what's best here, probably just ducking a diamond, but I elected HK, HA, diamond and LHO won and exited HJ in this position:


Q9x
-
Qx
Jx

KTxx
QT
x
-


You're about to win HQ, at which point you'll have 4 hearts, 1 club, and 2 diamonds won or established. The opponents have 2 tricks in the bank, plus CQ and SA when they want them. It appears LHO is 4=3=2=4. What now?

More tomorrow.

1 comment:

  1. Under your distributional assumption and assuming also the SA is with West, it looks as if you can always make without guessing the SJ...I'll let you describe how :-).

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