[el mister]

Played this hand recently where Gib lashed a certain winner into the bin - After A trumps has gone Gib holds Qx trumps over KJxx and puts the Q under the king.

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No words for this doubleplusungoodantibridge - until I realised why it had happened (spoilered if you want to try and figure it out)

Spoiler

Opening 1N with 14 and opps playing a wrong-sided contract, when KH is played partner gib can see enough cards to 100% place me with JH if I opened with 15+

Are the Q and the 7 basically the same card then from Gib's point of view, so it is literally 50/50 which it chooses to play? Or is it attempting some sort of crass signal?

Thought it was a painful reminder on how Gib uses the range of your bids to determine play

[smerriman]

If you look more carefully you'll actually notice that playing the queen does not cost a trick (double dummy at least).

[el mister]

smerriman, on 2021-October-11, 04:21, said:

If you look more carefully you'll actually notice that playing the queen does not cost a trick (double dummy at least).

I was wondering if there was an endplay situation as I know Gib can take some actions that seem strange, but are logical to avoid an endplay. Here, though, if they win QH correctly they are endplayed in spades - but can't they just exit a club?
There's no way to get three diamond discards so they must concede KD to go with the QH = down one.

May well be missing something...

[sfi]

el mister, on 2021-October-11, 05:25, said:

May well be missing something...

You are. Take the club hook and ruff the spades good. Now throw North in...

[el mister]

sfi, on 2021-October-11, 07:31, said:

You are. Take the club hook and ruff the spades good. Now throw North in...

Oh right I see - club before heart. Thks both, looks like I erred with AS and needed to cash KD earlier.