rogerclee, on May 9 2008, 01:23 PM, said:
ArtK78, on May 9 2008, 10:43 AM, said:
rogerclee, on May 9 2008, 03:58 AM, said:
I passed for a very ugly -470; partner had ♠AKxxx ♥JTx ♦x ♣AKQJ, and we could only take one club, two spades, and a diamond. Meanwhile, we are single-dummy cold for 3NT.
I thought pass was clear at the table and this was ordinary bad luck; glad to see the forums agree.
You may need two dummies at the table - one on your left, the other on your right - for 3NT to be "single-dummy cold." Unless the hearts are blocked, you have 4 heart losers and the
♦A to lose in 3NT.
♠xx
♥KQx
♦AJ9xxxx
♣x, lead the
♥K against 3NT?
♦A then switch to the
♥K?
I don't understand your desire to make a post like this.
You claimed that 3NT was "single-dummy cold." But you are off 5 very obvious tricks.
Will the defense always get them? No. But is 3NT cold? Obviously not.
And is the
♥K lead unreasonable on the auction that would arrive at 3NT? I don't think so. It is obvious that there is a diamond stop to the right of the
♦A, so a diamond lead is far from clear. You only need partner to have the
♥J for the heart lead to be right (unless you could run the diamond suit). And a diamond lead could very easily give away the ninth trick. Furthermore, if the diamond suit was running, you may get a second chance after the lead of the
♥K.
This is the type of hand that sometimes results in a lead producing a swing of 9 or more tricks. Suppose decarer had bid 3NT with Kx or Kxx of diamonds and one less heart. The
♥K lead results in running 5 heart tricks and then East puts the
♦Q on the table. The defense wins 12 tricks. On a low diamond lead declarer has a diamond, 5 spades and 4 clubs. This type of result happens every so often.