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best line for slam after opening lead..

#1 User is offline   squealydan 

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Posted 2012-May-23, 17:19



Playing Acol with south dealer, you end up in 6H from south, after a diamond splinter from north and no bidding from EW.

West leads the 9. Their convention card says low from three or more to an honour, second top from three or more small, top of doubletons.

How do you play it from here?
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Posted 2012-May-23, 17:56

If sit 4/1 you have no chance that I can see. Play the KQ of trumps and lead for a return. Play the and hope for a doubleton. Play the to cut again. A followed by another . Get the lead and pull trump to cash remaining 2 spades.

I hope?

Play the diamond to partner and return for a cut, return heart to partner and play another diamond to cut again. Pull another trump and play clubs 2 rounds?

I will go with that instead.
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Posted 2012-May-23, 20:27

Aim to ruff 2 . But comms are an issue so I will start by ducking a .
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Posted 2012-May-24, 00:39


squealydan writes "Playing Acol with south dealer, you end up in 6H from south, after a diamond splinter from north and no bidding from EW. West leads the 9. Their convention card says low from three or more to an honour, second top from three or more small, top of doubletons. How do you play it from here?"

If you're worried about ruffs, you can play RHO for doubleton or trebleton J.
Q, A, ruff a with Q, finesse 9, ruff a with K, finesse T, A, Claim :)
Partner may be unsympahetic when LHO has J and are 3-3 :(

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Posted 2012-May-24, 00:57

View Postsquealydan, on 2012-May-23, 17:19, said:



Playing Acol with south dealer, you end up in 6H from south, after a diamond splinter from north and no bidding from EW.

West leads the 9. Their convention card says low from three or more to an honour, second top from three or more small, top of doubletons.

How do you play it from here?


Win. Ace of diamond diamond ruff small. Cash heart king. If singleton J comes then OK if spades on worse than 4-2. Otherwise, concede a low club. Plan to enter hand with a spade to take another diamond ruff. Cash heart queen. If jack appears on right overtake to draw trumps. Else enter hand with club ruff and hope for the best...
RT
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Posted 2012-May-24, 07:26

If LHO really has a singleton spade, we have to play as Nigel suggests, but that's not particularly good odds. A 1=5 spade break would mean that J is 12:8 to be offside, and we're going down on all sorts of normal layouts, as well as giving up all chance of coping with a 4-1 trump break.

Unless the lead came out very quickly, I'd duck a club at trick two, then play to set the clubs up.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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