Bluffing
Here's a hand from this weekend's competition:
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An easy one you might think, and you'd be right ofcourse. However it surprised me that my RHO chose the wrong line of play and went down in a lay down contract.
Here's what happened: the auction is over quite fast, and some may disagree with North's bid. However, it worked ok.
3♠ - 4♣! - 4♠ - 5♥
all pass
4♣ showed a good 2-suiter with ♥ and ♣, aka "leaping Michael's". Technically the hand is a bit too weak for this (too many losers).
I was sitting West and lead ♠J. Partner took his Ace, thought for 5 seconds and returned a ♠ to my King. I figured that partner would have cashed ♦A before returning ♠ if he had it, and same goes for ♣A. So the only chance seemed to be a ♥ trick. Obviously we can only make a ♥ trick when we play in triple void and partner has ♥J or declarer ruffs high to avoid a trump promotion of singleton ♥Q. So I played ♠2, making sure declarer would know that my partner didn't have any ♠s left, and to face him with a problem.
Now declarer took 5 minutes to make a wrong choice. He ruffed with the Ace, played ♥K and was quite surprised to see the Queen in my hand!
I thought this was a wrong move, but my view was already biased, so I polled about what others would do. None went for ♥A. So I guess my analyse was right. What South should've thought about is "how does West know it's safe to play in a triple void?". If you can answer that question, then you'll know that West has ♥Q with a high probability.
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