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Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
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Date: 31 Dec 92 14:25:28 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Nick Straguzzi) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
>>> Anyhow, playing with a good partner, 2/1 with g[a]dgets I picked up in
>>> 4th seat, W v R, the following collection of tickets:
>>>    JT72, K983, A74, K6
>>>
>>> After 3 passes, do you open?
>
> Yes.  No choice at matchpoints.  What form of scoring is okbridge?
>
>>> I guess it is close but the possesion of both majors made me open
>>> 1D (weird huh?)  RHO overcalls 1NT Pard X's LHO XX's.  and there it
>>> stands.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how many netters play 1NT in this sequence as
> natural?  I play it as Unusual, which I believe is the expert
> treatment in my neck of the woods.  Is it true, as it appears here,
> that the Standard Earth expert treatment of a fifth seat 1NT overcall
> is natural?  Even red vs. white??
>
>>>              98,
>>>              QT,
>>>              QJT3
>>>              A9752
>>>                        JT72
>>>                        K983
>>>                        A73
>>>                        K6
>>>
>>> Parter leads the SK, and follows with SQ, SA and small spade to the J.
>>> dummy discards two small clubs. Declarer follows three times and discards
>>> a diamond on the J of spades.
>>>
>>> How do you continue?
>>>
>>> Aviel Roy-Shapira, M.D.         Ben-Gurion University Medical School
>>
>>kC!
>
> I admit the CK is an attractive play, if only for its sense of high
> drama and the potential for building a worldwide reputation for
> brilliance.  :-)
>
> Nonetheless, my vote is for a low heart.
>
> If declarer (who, BTW, is either 3-4-4-2 or 3-3-4-3) has the CQ and HJ
> to go along with his marked HA and DK, you are done for.  So you may
> as well play partner for one or the other.  For the CK to work, pard
> must hold not only the CQ but the CT as well.  Otherwise, declarer
> will get home with two clubs, three diamonds, and two hearts on the
                                ~~~~~
    It is unlikely for the dummy to have chance to play his last diamond,
even pard has only the club  jack.

> hook.  (Please don't tell me declarer is missing the CJ or HJ too --
> his bidding is weird enough as it is.)
>
> Yes, partner's spade carding *suggests* club values.  But for him to
> hold the CQ is very unlikely and the CT as well even less so.  If
> you're going to play him for a useful card, better it be a jack.
>
> (Let me guess: -760, right?)
>
> Nick
> --
>  Nick Straguzzi / GE Advanced Technology Labs / Moorestown NJ / [phone]
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