Here's a hand from an online team match.
You hold ♠32 ♥KQJ9 ♦QJT8 ♣543. LHO dealer, we are NV vs V.
The bidding starts:
1♠ - pass - 2♠ - ...
Your turn, what do you bid? Most players will just pass, and right they are. At the table however I found a nice bid: 3♥! LHO bid 4♠ (as I expected) and that ended the auction.
| Dealer: | North | | Vul: | NS | | Scoring: | imps | |
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Partner obviously lead a
♥ which gave declarer a very hard time. He took the Ace at trick 1 and played
♠ to my partner's Ace. He returned another
♥ and I cashed K and Q, seeing that the
♥ were splitting 3-3. Now, having 3 tricks already, I passively played
♠ and declarer had to find
♣Q without much information.
With any other lead (except
♠A followed by a
♥) declarer can easily discard a loser on his
♣ without losing control of the hand, so he can hardly make any mistake. Now he placed
♣Q with me and went down.
What would've happened in 3
♥x? I guess I'd go down 1 too much, but how will they find that Double at this vulnerability with small trumps?
1 comment:
they could not find 3H-X?(small trumps;3-3 split) you mean you could SEE they had only small trumps and in that distribution?
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