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#1 User is offline   ahydra 

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Posted 2017-November-01, 04:40



Matchpoints. EW play a variant of Acol, so 2H promises 10+ HCPs and 5+ hearts and 3H is NF. Lead agreements are 4ths and top of nothing. Pick your opening lead.

If it makes any difference, EW are supposedly good players - though they have just gone for 1100 after overcalling (1H) 2C on Qxx xx 98xx KJ10x...

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Posted 2017-November-01, 05:59

View Postahydra, on 2017-November-01, 04:40, said:


Matchpoints. EW play a variant of Acol, so 2H promises 10+ HCPs and 5+ hearts and 3H is NF. Lead agreements are 4ths and top of nothing. Pick your opening lead.
If it makes any difference, EW are supposedly good players - though they have just gone for 1100 after overcalling (1H) 2C on Qxx xx 98xx KJ10x...

Look forward to reading simulation results but I rank:
  • ♥J. Honours seem to lie badly for declarer, so attempt to draw trumps.
  • ♣2. Aggressive, especially at Match-points.
  • ♠3. But declarer seems to be short in ♠s
  • ♦A.

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Posted 2017-November-01, 06:10

small club
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2017-November-01, 06:24

View Postahydra, on 2017-November-01, 04:40, said:

If it makes any difference, EW are supposedly good players - though they have just gone for 1100 after overcalling (1H) 2C on Qxx xx 98xx KJ10x...


supposedly good sort of contravenes the Players' Description Act (amended 2017) having gone previously for 1100 overcalling on crap!

As for the lead, I'm with eagles123: small ♣. Tempted to lead a ♥ but I'd rather let declarer guess in trumps if a guess has to be made.
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Posted 2017-November-01, 06:38

7♥. When they offer to play in no trumps, then correct to a suit they clearly expect to take extra tricks from trumps - so I lead one.
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