Playing imps, the auction went (West dealer, EW vulnerable):
1NT - 2♣* - pass - 2♦*
pass - pass - Dbl - pass
2♠ - pass - pass - pass
2♣ shows either ♦ or both Majors
2♦ is "Pass or Correct"
Partner leads ♦J and you see following dummy:
♠ 6542
♥ KQ7
♦ 5
♣ Q8653
You hold:
♠ A83
♥ JT953
♦ A8
♣ T92
Obviously you take ♦A at trick 1.
How do you plan the defense?
Question is how you'll defeat this contract. EW have 22-24HCP, this leaves partner with 7-9HCP. You already know partner doesn't have ♦K or ♦Q. LHO might have passed with 4 ♦s from KQ, so he probably has only 3 ♦s. This also explains partner's intervention: a poor but long suit. So his values must be somewhere else. The only way to defeat this contract seems if he has good trumps and an Ace. Partner will have 2 trumps at most, so chances are low. However, ♥A or ♣A or ♣K won't run away on declarer's ♦s. We can overruff dummy, so I think the best opportunity we have is to continue a ♦ and hope.
Here's the full deal:
| Dealer: | West | | Vul: | EW | | Scoring: | imps | |
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This is what should happen: declarer plays a
♥ to the K and plays a low trump. You play low and declarer inserts the Ten for partner's Jack. Partner also knows you don't have any
♦s left so he'll play his lowest remaining
♦ to show a
♣ suit preference. You can ruff with the 8, return a
♣ to partner's Ace who returns another
♦ (to promote his
♠K if you have the Q) which you ruff with the Ace. Even better!
Only a dummy reversal for the defenders gets this contract down.
♦A,
♣A and 4
♠ tricks is just enough.
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