Few hands from tonight. I have 2 other days left to post...
2.
First of all, can you reach 6D? It's scary on a spade lead, but it seems to be a good contract.
I got to 3N, got the H6 lead. I took an "unnatural" finesse in diamonds, toward the short hand. Clearly this loses, but I feel like Qxx on my right is better than Qxx(x) on my left given the lead. This was a terrible score, with a lot of the field making 490. Is it that much better to finesse toward the long hand, or did people just not think about it?
4.
Can you bid this? I almost blasted 6 over 4. Of course, on a bad (normal?) day, it goes HA and a ruff.
14.
This one feels straight out of a book.
Of course, I failed to ruff the SQ. Partner commented on this after the hand (I didn't even notice a trump promotion was in the making), and I replied, "Oh! Then you should lead a small spade!"
I'm not posting this here to blame my partner; in fact, I should be able to figure out that it costs nothing to ruff, but I think it really is instructive.
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2. hearts rate to be 5/3 on average by the lead, so your play looks good. However, if you'd tested clubs first, you'd have gotten an even better clue, and gotten it right.
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4. Really think you can't bid past 5. On a really bad day, south has the heart ace, and north the club ace, and maybe you're down 1 in 5.
If I test clubs first, I lose communication.
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