From: taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: Re: Place the Blame
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:12:16 GMT

In article <1gonqpINNp72@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>, doug@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Douglas Newlands) writes:
|> More of everyone's favourite activity.
|> 
|> 1 Bidding : who gets blamed for this travesty?
|> 
|> Butler Teams        S A4
|> LA                  H 987654                   S     W     N     E
|> D-S                 D QJ106                    1S    2D    P     3C*
|> 		    C 7                        P     3D    P     4D
|>                                                P     5D    X   all pass
|> 	S J1032             S 96
|> 	H A                 H Q32
|> 	D K98543            D A7
|> 	C J6                C AK10982         * 1 round force
|> 
|> 		    S KQ875
|> 		    H KJ10
|> 		    D 2
|> 		    C Q543

You play 1-round force with the garbage the West overcalled with?
He then bid further after East's raise???
West gets 2000% of the blame.



|> 
|> 2 Play : 
|> 
|> Butler Teams        S AJ964                   N      E     S      W
|> EW                  H KJ74                    1C+    1N*   X~     2C
|> D-N                 D AK5                     2S     P     4S   all pass
|> 		    C J
|>                                               + precision
|> 	S KQ3               S 5               * minors
|> 	H Q10962            H 3               ~ 5-8 any shape
|> 	D 8                 D Q9763
|> 	C AQ94              C 1086532
|> 
|> 		    S 10872          Trick 1: 5C 7C QC JC
|> 		    H A85            Trick 2: AC ruffed
|> 		    D J1042          Trick 3: AS
|> 		    C K7
|> 
|> Declarer could no longer avoid 4 losers;N was told he should have crossed to
|> AH and finessed trumps. Is this correct?

This line will lose if there is a singleton honor
with East since you have no more entries to dummy to repeat the finesse.
I think the singleton honor is more likely than the KQx with West.
So it comes down to whether you think it is more likely whether
East has a singleton or doubleton spade.  I believe it is the
former (I am not sure).  So I would play a low spade to the 10
and finesse the J when I get in the lead with a heart again.
This will lose whenever spades are split 2-2 with split honors.

|> 
|> 3 Defence: Here declarer makes a hopeless contract - who should have found the
|> defence?
|> 
|> Teams              S xxx
|> NS                 H AKQJ10
|> D-N                D xx                   N     E      S    W
|> 		   C xxx                  P     P     1N    P
|>                                           2D    P     2H    P
|> 	S 9xx2              S QJ10x       4H  all pass
|> 	H xxx               H xx
|> 	D A10x              D KJx
|> 	C Qxx               C KJ10x
|> 
|> 		   S AK
|> 		   H xxx
|> 		   D Qxxxx
|> 		   C Axx
|> 
|> The play started T1 9S xS xS AS
|> 		 T2 xD 10D xD xD
|> 		 T3 2s xS 10S KS
|> 		 T4 xD xD xD JD
|> 		 T5 QS         and declarer is now home.

Partner would have played his highest honor on trick 1
unless he had equal honors to the 9.  If he had
KQJ10, he would have had to play the 10.

So, the only possible holding that will do you any good is
QJ10.  You will be able to establish a spade trick.  But no
10 fell on the 9 therefore, he has no holding that will do you
any good.  You must abandon spades.  Clubs seems like the best
switch.
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