After a pass from RHO, you are dealt ♠-- ♥A10x ♦AJ9 ♣AKQJ10xx. You consider a few options but end up opening 1♣. After a pass, partner responds 1♥, and RHO overcalls 2♠. Right or wrong, you bid 3♠, doubled to partner, who passes (strangely), back to you. Assuming partner to have no spade stop, you bid 4♠, again right or wrong. Partner bids 5♥, which is promptly doubled by RHO, and you try 6♣. Gotta get there for the story, in that sequence, as that is what happened.
Anyway, the spade Ace lead catches dummy:
Scoring: IMP
After ruffing in hand, clubs split 2-2. You need to make this...
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RHO seems to have 6♠/4♥, explaining his non-2♠ pass in first seat and his double of 5♥. Plus, you need that, and that seems more likely than 6♠/4♦. [edit -- removed idiot line -- LOL]
Cash the diamond ace and then immediately play the diamond Jack when an honor drops to the right (RHO might actually have 6-3-2-2 with KQ-tight in diamonds, also). LHO ducks that, lest you have an entry, and then your count is complete. Now play the heart 10. When that is ducked, strip hearts before playing a third diamond, endplaying LHO.
Another remote possibility is that RHO has 6-5-0-2 shape. In that event, you would be better suited playing the heart 10 at trick 4, reserving the diamonds. This would be ducked. You then play the diamond Jack, but LHO ducks this also. Now, there is no counter left. So, that holding is no good.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
I am sorry ken, but RHO takes ♥Q and plays a spade, you only have 11 tricks. Put ♠J 4th in dummy for that
Wow. Neither of us saw that. Duh!
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
Win the diamond ace (honor must drop on your right) and play the diamond jack. If LHO wins you are home. If LHO ducks then NOW you play the heart 10 and you are home.
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Win the diamond ace (honor must drop on your right) and play the diamond jack. If LHO wins you are home. If LHO ducks then NOW you play the heart 10 and you are home.
Now, see? I actually put that line in there, not realizing that this was critical.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
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