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#1 User is offline   Fluffy 

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Posted 2012-May-26, 08:16



Match points, your agressive bidding gets a good dummy reward.

LHO leads ♥5. And lets say you try low from dummy and capture RHO's ♥J with your queen.

a low spade is led to the king, and RHO drops ♠10 under it.

Now say you call for ♣10 from dummy and RHO plays ♣J and you win.


Now if you could just test if ♣J is singleton it could be a big inference about how the spades lie. But it doesn't seem very easy to do so without jamming your comunications. Any ideas?
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Posted 2012-May-26, 10:13

I'd just assume it was a singleton. Covering from Jx could be very costly.
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Posted 2012-May-26, 14:33

I'd like to go back and interpolate DA, DJ off the table before playing on clubs. Otherwise we're committing to leading a major suit now, given our relative lack of entries to hand.
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