Friday, 17 August 2012

Lead and defensive problem

(Having just had a not so successful evening of bridge you can expect a few hands to appear in quick succession on here! Also experimenting with poll feature still)
Game All, at IMPS, sitting East RHO opens a [systemically] good quality 3, you hold:
East
8 5
J 5 2
A Q 8 5 2
K 4 3
The bidding continues with 4 from South which ends the auction.

What do you lead?



Now suppose you're sitting West and after the same auction above, partner led 8 and you see:
North Dealer
All Vulnerable
IMPS (thanks Adam)
North
West
6
K 6 4 3
K 7 6 4
A 10 8 2
Lead
8
South
A K 7
Q 10 9 8 7
J
Q 9 6 5
Declarer takes the lead with the Ace. (Let's assume declarer doesn't play a low club, and you don't rise with the Ace to make partner cry.)
Instead assume a diamond is played off table taken by partner's Queen, partner returns the spade five, declarer wins on table and now plays a low club off table.

How do you proceed?

Please use comments below too, if you like!
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4 comments:

  1. adskal18 August 2012 at 01:35

    A `blog-teething' comment: it would be good to know what type of scoring we play (I assume imps) and the approximate quality of the opponents.

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  2. David18 August 2012 at 03:36

    Ah, good plan thanks. The scoring here was imps scoring, and this particular hand was against the best pair of the evening so you can assume they're top county players.

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  3. David21 August 2012 at 15:57

    So, in answer to the second question, my first natural reaction was just to play a low club. But you can actually pick up the case when declarer has singleton club king, two low hearts and three diamonds, by rising with the club ace and switching to a heart (IF the king drops). The big danger to rising with the ace is on hands like this one, but you can just continue with a diamond forcing declarer to use dummy's entry before he has chance to set up the slow club trick. Going up with the club king only seems to lose out when declarer has 7=1=2=3 with the club king and a low heart? Declarer may have played on hearts or partner might have found a diamond continuation on those hands too to help clarify for you, perhaps?

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    1. David27 August 2012 at 06:28

      (third from last line, I meant club Ace not King.

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