North leads ♥J; Declarer takes the ♥A in dummy and plays 2 rounds of trump (North had ♠xJ), ending in dummy; South played ♠T and ♠9: Lavinthal)
He now plays ♥ from Dummy taking by the ♥K (declarer had ♥Qx).
It was now clear for me that partner had 2155 and he needed ♦A. There my thinking stopped. I played a small ♦.
My partner played ♦Q and ♦A and then played ♣ for declarers ♣AQ.
- I hoped that partner would play ♦A and small ♦ and then I would play ♣; but if I think more then I know we need 1 diamond trick and 2 club tricks. I would also know that declarer has 4c♣ and cal only ruff 2 ♣. => A high ♣ would have made it easiest for partner.
- Maybe partner should know I have ♦K (I played high ♥ at trick 1: obv switch for ♦; spades high-low; and a did lead a small ♦)
- Partner can return a ♦ in the double ruff iso ♣; then declarer still goes down. This is a bit counter intuitive. I didn't realize this after the deal. This is maybe less related to card reading and more technical?
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I'm not a beginner or intermediate player, but I'm missing this focus or card reading to be really good. How can I do better and realize all this at the table?
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In another deal I had:
x=Q98x=KTxx=Jxxx
Partner did lead a high D (AJxx in dummy), I ducked and declarer took his Q. Declarer played some Spades and partner signalled Hearts. I gave the contract away by discarding a club (declarer had club AKQTx). A Heart discard would have been better.