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Possibly an interesting lead problem. I am a big fan of leading from HHx with two touching honours. This hand that was not so good.
It got worse when I did lead the hK as east ducked! So I continued hearts. Such a play - the duck - is a called Grosvenor. A play that is wrong but the opponent can't work out that it is wrong and is therefore unable to take advantage of it.
East should win of course. Then the hJ is likely to be a second stopper.
DDA indicates KH is a clear favourite by ~0.3 tricks. I assumed dummy did not have a 5 card major (as would have transferred), but that declarer could have. I retested assuming declarer did not have a 5 card major but little impact. Also I assumed pard did not have a weak 2 type hand where they would overcall in balancing position. Retesting this also indicated little difference. Finally, I swapped a small club to a small spade, so opening leader now has a 5 card major. Same effective result but margin reduced slightly to ~0.2 tricks. Unlucky!
Possibly an interesting lead problem. I am a big fan of leading from HHx with two touching honours. This hand that was not so good.
ReplyDeleteIt got worse when I did lead the hK as east ducked! So I continued hearts. Such a play - the duck - is a called Grosvenor. A play that is wrong but the opponent can't work out that it is wrong and is therefore unable to take advantage of it.
East should win of course. Then the hJ is likely to be a second stopper.
DDA indicates KH is a clear favourite by ~0.3 tricks. I assumed dummy did not have a 5 card major (as would have transferred), but that declarer could have. I retested assuming declarer did not have a 5 card major but little impact. Also I assumed pard did not have a weak 2 type hand where they would overcall in balancing position. Retesting this also indicated little difference.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I swapped a small club to a small spade, so opening leader now has a 5 card major. Same effective result but margin reduced slightly to ~0.2 tricks.
Unlucky!