[inquiry]

Here is an odd hand. This hand was played in 3NT by south 37 times. It made most of the time, when it really has little play. The oddity was, every time EW lead their best (9 card) suit, it made.

Scoring: IMP

West 4-4 in the majors, pretty much lead a major every time (a few lead a club, which makes the hand easy). Those that lead a small spade ALWAYS defeated 3NT.

♥4 LEAD = 15, down once (overtricks common)
♥9 lead = 1, made with overtrick
♠2 lead = 8 times, always down
♠9 lead = 2 times, one made, one down
♠K/Q lead = 8 times, made 3, down 5
♣4 lead =1 , amazingly down
♦5 lead = 2 times, made both

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The usual line of play was ♥ to the jack-queen. The best play is probably ♦ to king, and then ♣ back to your hand like you first tried to drop stiff diamond and now are going to try to hook ♦ on second round. West is unlikely to find the right defense then.. .(unless of course EAST read Vinje's book and play low ♥ at trick one). Only one player found that play (lehman 58), what everyone else did, is cash six ♦'s then lead a club. West won the club and lead back a black suit. EW must have a way to figure out how to grab hearts, not the least via a number of signals...

1. East duck completely trick one
2. East give smith echo in diamonds, and then pitch away both spades on diamonds then club jack
3. Other?

Anyway, seemed odd that leading the six card fit always destroyed 3NT, leading the nine card fit allways (almost) let it make. .

[matmat]

just seems that EW probably had poor signaling methods and weren't established/good partnerships

[inquiry]

matmat, on Feb 15 2008, 09:17 PM, said:

just seems that EW probably had poor signaling methods and weren't established/good partnerships

This seems true... but 14 pairs out of 15?

[cherdano]

inquiry, on Feb 15 2008, 08:19 PM, said:

matmat, on Feb 15 2008, 09:17 PM, said:

just seems that EW probably had poor signaling methods and weren't established/good partnerships

This seems true... but 14 pairs out of 15?

Uhm, I am pretty sure on average at least 14 out of 15 partnerships in the MBC will have poor signaling methods. Of course this is apparently OkBridge, doesn't know how it compares to MBC.

[matmat]

cherdano, on Feb 15 2008, 10:52 PM, said:

inquiry, on Feb 15 2008, 08:19 PM, said:

matmat, on Feb 15 2008, 09:17 PM, said:

just seems that EW probably had poor signaling methods and weren't established/good partnerships

This seems true... but 14 pairs out of 15?

Uhm, I am pretty sure on average at least 14 out of 15 partnerships in the MBC will have poor signaling methods. Of course this is apparently OkBridge, doesn't know how it compares to MBC.

did i miss something? okbridge?

i just assumed it was some sort of BBO tournament...