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Declarer problem Undertricks do matter at IMPs.

#1 User is offline   Joe de Balliol 

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Posted 2006-March-26, 06:57

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Right, you're East and pass at a highish level competition. It's teams of four, but you'd quite like to do well on the Butler as well :D You pass of course, partner opens 1C [5cm, better minor, weak nt]. RHO bids 1H. You double. LHO raises to 2H and partner bids 3D. You bid 3N. A heart is led. Apart from blaming partner for the auction, what's your plan of action?
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Posted 2006-March-26, 08:17

♥K, small ♦ to your J, and play ♣A followed by the finesse ♣ later on.
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Posted 2006-March-26, 09:09

I think the tricky question is what to do if the ♦J holds at trick two. The best chance to make is now to cash the aces in hand and take the club finesse. But that will also ensure a maximum number of undertricks in case the finesse fails.

I think I will play a club to the jack, and a club back to the ace if it holds, too.

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Posted 2006-March-27, 00:42

I better make my contract, else I will loose the post mortem because of my double. We had the discussion before: Do a double show both missing suits or not? I am with your part in that case.
I see no big sense in the goal to reach less undertricks as long as I have a chance to make the contract.
But I see a reason to choose the slightly less perfect line and play a first round club finesse after I played a diamond to the jack.
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Posted 2006-March-27, 08:53

The Knave of diamonds won. I played a club to the Knave.

Sure enough, the queen of clubs was singleton offside and team-mates were not happy. I didn't bother arguing with them, as I don't think one of them understood the problem with entries I had. Cheers for replies.

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Posted 2006-March-27, 19:01

I hated this damn deal, played 4♣ after pass-pass-3♣-X-4♣-all pass

With 3 toplosers I had to find ♣Q
I made an interesting play reducing RHO's cards ruffing away his 10 non trump cards to find out he had 3 trumps with 3 tricks to go.
(♠K,♠Q,♥->♥K,♦J,♠ ruff, ♦K->♦A, ♥ ruff, ♦ ruff, ♥A discarding ♦Q and 4th ♥ on wich RHO had to discard ♠A)

When I was victoriously gonna finese ♣Q I found it singleton on my left GRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGGRGG.


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Posted 2006-March-28, 03:55

I was on the England U20s, and you?
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Posted 2006-March-28, 04:40

I played for Spain
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