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Defensive Play SIX

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Posted 2011-August-31, 22:51

CLICK NEXT to see TRICK ONE.

Dummy must be a disappointment to South. PLAN your defense, be specific. There is a play you need to find here when the time comes, what is it?

I think five and six are easier than 1 thru 4, but maybe we can rate degree of difficulty after a few more are posted.

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Posted 2011-September-01, 01:23

It may not matter (I haven't thought farther than just watching trick 1 play), but what signals are we playing? In particular, is the 2 count showing odd, count showing even, not count?
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Posted 2011-September-01, 06:43

My question is the same as BG's, but my first impression is
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Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

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Posted 2011-September-01, 08:18

Lead hearts from the top every time I'm in, hoping declarer doesn't have KQ9x. Duck playing the K♦ until 3rd round even if A♦ hasn't appeared, possibly sacrificing a ♦ trick but planning to block the suit. As long as he doesn't have KQ9x♥ or 4♦s, I win at least 3♥ and 2♣.
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Posted 2011-September-01, 14:27

CLICK NEXT to see TRICK ONE.

BD71 and vuroth got the point I was trying for here. Declarer will win no club tricks, and on the bidding, a maximum of 4♠ (and only if south has ♠AKQJ). You have sufficient tricks to defeat this even if South wins two hearts and has four spades as long as you don't let the diamonds come home.

So if declarer plays a low diamond, you must duck. If declarer plays ♦Ace and a diamond, you had best 100% trust your partners signal of an odd number of diamonds to win the king. 2D+2H+4S is only 8 tricks. On this hand, taken from others play, the ♥2 was standard count I guess.

As a Beginner/Intermediate hand, I should have modified it to give you AJT9 instead of AJT8 of hearts, so as not to have to worry about heart nine. This was to get you to count their potential tricks versus your trick. Three pairs made 9 tricks in notrump on this hand when they grabbed ♦K too early.



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Posted 2011-September-01, 14:44

I think the hand is better without the modification. It's great that you get these hands from real play, and real hands are rarely perfect. The correct play can still be found.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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