[whereagles]

Scoring: IMP

North South
1♥....1♠
2♦....2♠
pass

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Before his final pass, East wiggled a bit.

West leads the spade queen. What is your plan?

[Fluffy]

May I say I dislike the bidding? :-P

Duck the ♠ and try to stablish ♥, trying ♦ finese would be my line I think.

[whereagles]

Fluffy, on May 19 2005, 10:20 PM, said:

May I say I dislike the bidding? :-P

You may

But you must agree the final contract sure is ok

[Free]

Fluffy, on May 19 2005, 11:20 PM, said:

May I say I dislike the bidding? :-P

Duck the ♠ and try to stablish ♥, trying ♦ finese would be my line I think.

Why do you duck? If they switch ♦s you might never reach dummy to cash 2 good ♥s.

[Echognome]

I take the spade queen. Then I cash ♥K and play a diamond to the A. I then cash the A and Q of hearts pitching a diamond. (Did anything interesting happen?) If not, I ruff a diamond and exit with a club. I should hopefully be up to 6 tricks by now, with the A♠ to come. I'm hoping that opponents will let me ruff a red suit for my 8th trick.

[whereagles]

Echo: if you play like that, why not finessing the diamond on the way?

[Gerben42]

I rebid 2♥ just in case you would like to know.
Take it, unblock ♥K and finesse the ♦. If it wins hope that ♥ break and ruff a ♦ for your 8th trick. If it loses you have to make two of your little ♠, a somewhat tougher job.

[Echognome]

whereagles, on May 20 2005, 03:34 AM, said:

Echo: if you play like that, why not finessing the diamond on the way?

I refuse the finesse because I don't want the opponents playing on clubs and discarding red suits before I get my ruff in. My goal is 8 tricks. Granted, if the diamond finesse works, then 8 tricks seems much easier.

[Fluffy]

Free, on May 20 2005, 08:17 AM, said:

Fluffy, on May 19 2005, 11:20 PM, said:

May I say I dislike the bidding? :-P

Duck the ♠ and try to stablish ♥,  trying ♦ finese would be my line I think.

Why do you duck? If they switch ♦s you might never reach dummy to cash 2 good ♥s.

Opps that's thrue, playing too much low lovel MP latelly, at IMPs I gess that's a silly line.

Anyway its ahrd to base my plan on the fact east didn't pass in tempo, I have to know him, exactly how much has he though etc etc, and you cannot explain that with words.

[beatrix45]

Why get active? Win the spade, cash the offending heart king, and lead a club. Your long spade is probably a trick anyway unless spades are 5-2 or 6-1. The diamond hook will still be there. I would duck the spade, but as one analyst pointed out, we do not want a diamond shift. Show me a good plan to score TWO ruffs in my hand so as to make 2 spades, and I will go for it.

[whereagles]

Thx all. In practice we all go down because spades are 6-1(!!!) and the diamond king is offside.

I just wondering whether it was best to try for the 8th trick via the diamond finesse or to try and establish the clubs. Clubs seems to me a little bit better. There is always time to try the diam finesse later.

The diamond finesse would go 1 down here. Trying clubs first goes 3 down because they break 4-1... oops

RHO's wiggle was due to him thinking of making a take-out double. Good thing he didn't... lol. (In any case if it were doubled I wouldn't try any finesse or funny moves. I'd cash 7 tricks in double-quick time.)