Yesterday's Dare, Board 2, defense:
The uncontested auction begins on your left
1
- 1
1 NT - 3NT
This being acol, that 1NT rebid is like an opening 1NT in std 2/1.
Partner leads the
J
Dummy hits, shown to the right, you hold, as shown below:
AJ83
QT
KQ95
853
K62
KJ3
8643
742
A small
from the table, taken by the Q (at our table taken by the A but taken by the Q is better I think).
Declarer leads the
Q, pard shows an odd number of cards, declarer plays low from dummy, let's say you forget the duck and take your K. Now what?
Suppose the object is to set the hand, overtricks and undertricks are ignored.
Now what?
I considered a small
. If pard has the A we get 3 tricks. But surely declarer then has the rest.
Ah, but this is acol. There is no way I was going to find the setting switch to the
J even if I did remember this is acol, but it would have worked.
Parter holds
A972
So:
J to the A,
2 to my K, and now a third
to pard's 97, declarer holding 86.
no, I am not doing that.
Still, I thought I would post the hand. We will be playing against the acols on Ap 3 and it is good to keep in mind how they bid.
Acols open four card majors. Goren opened for card majors but even Charlie did not open 1
on 8654. Apparently acols do.
Something to keep in mind, although not dwell on, for Ap 3.
Btw, I duclke the first
after which declarer had a clear 9 tricks. But even if I took the first
I was not switching to the
J.