[antonylee]

20VP Swiss

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SQ lead, righty encourages.

[whereagles]

for starters, duck. take 2nd spade and play heart up

[antonylee]

whereagles, on 2014-November-09, 08:40, said:

for starters, duck. take 2nd spade and play heart up

Loses on your right to the K (but the A appears on your left when you play a 2nd heart up).

[gszes]

The opps have no good reason to think spades are bad for them and good for us so
it seems best to try and keep that illusion alive by winning the first spade and
leading a heart. There is a fair chance rho has Hx in spades so they may not be
able to lead a 3rd spade (which would be good for us sigh) but at least we can try
to cut down on spade overruffs by trying to draw trumps as fast as possible and hoping
for the dia K onside as well as reasonable heart breaks.

[whereagles]

I imagine opps shift to a club when in with the first heart. And yes, I do play another one up. Assuming a 2nd club comes up, I'll try ruffing a spade to enter dummy.

I'm probably down, as this is too simple a line

[antonylee]

whereagles, on 2014-November-10, 12:44, said:

I imagine opps shift to a club when in with the first heart. And yes, I do play another one up. Assuming a 2nd club comes up, I'll try ruffing a spade to enter dummy.

I'm probably down, as this is too simple a line

Spades break, so you make.
My partner followed gszes's line but trumps were 4-2 and the DK offside.

[whereagles]

Better lucky than good

[antonylee]

But that's exactly the question: can you at least partially combine the chances in spades and diamonds?

[whereagles]

I don't know.. I just played it out of feeling.

[kuhchung]

pitch a club on the 3rd round of spades? i dunno. maybe LHO got stuck with the lead.