mn|SKY Club & Larry Cohen|tu||
cr|155|cb|164|cg|1155|
cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|
cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|
cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|
cr|590|cb|5180|cg|5130|
cr|6255|cb|6255|cg|6255|
cr|7120|cb|7255|cg|80|
fh|170|ff|1Times New Roman|fi|1y|fb|1y|fu||
fh|250|ff|2Times New Roman|fi|2y|fb|2y|fu||
fh|379|ff|3Arial|fi||fb||fu||
fh|410|ff|4Arial|fi||fb|4y|fu||
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^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|5|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series III - Deal II }
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|fp|4|ht|y|at|^- The analyses are kindly made and shared for you by Larry Cohen.
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|cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
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|fp||at|Welcome to the second in a row deal of the third series.  |pg||

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|fp||at|This deal is the second in a series of four that deal with the follow-ups after a negative double. 

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bg|6|st||qx|Board1|3d||ah|SKY&&Larry|ah|S III - D II|
pn|South,You,North,Partner,South,West,North,East|md|4SKQT92HQ97DA52C87,SAJ8HAKJ4D763CJT2,S74HT852DK4C96543|sv|n|sk|w|nt||ht|c|at|You hold these West cards in third seat with only the opponents vulnerable :|pg||mb|1d|nt||ht|c|at|Your partner opens 1@D |pg||mb|1s|at|and RHO overcalls 1@S.   |pg||nt||ht|c|at|What should you do? |pg||
nt||cq|3|lb|*mYour call is?^Double~3NT^1|nt||ht|c|at|You could bid 3NT (you have enough points), |pg||at|but it usually pays to look for a 4-4 fit in a major.   |pg||mb|d|nt||ht|c|at|You should make a negative double. |pg||mb|p2c|nt||ht|c|at|LHO passes and partner rebids 2@C. |pg||mb|p|at|Now what? |pg||mb|3n|nt||ht|c|at|Now is the time for 3NT. There is no 4-4 fit in a major and you have enough points for game with a good stopper(s) in the opponent's suit. |pg||mb|ppp|nt||ht|c|at|Everyone passes |pg||pc|s7|at|and the @S7 is led. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|What do you think of partner's 2@C rebid? |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Very sexy, if you ask me. |pg||at|He didn't want to bid 1NT without a spade stopper, and didn't want to rebid his 5-card suit. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|So, he improvised by treating his very impressive 3-card club suit as a 4-card suit. |pg||at|This turned out to be a good decision as it made it easy for you to bid 3NT without worrying about the lack of a club stopper. |pg||pc|s|nt||ht|c|at|On the first trick, |pg||pc|sq|nt||ht|c|at|East plays the @SQ and you? |pg||
nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat do you play now? ^^s8^sas8|at|This is the time for a hold-up play. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|At notrump you should count WINNERS.  |pg||hs|ec|nt||ht|c|at|You have 3 clubs, |pg||ls|ec|hc|hak|at|2 hearts, |pg||lc|hak|hs|ws|at|and it looks like 2 spades for sure. |pg||ls|ws|hs|edwd|at|You will need to set up diamonds. |pg||ls|edwd|nt||ht|c|at|Your fear is that LHO will win the first diamond and clear spades. |pg||at|Then RHO could win the next diamond and his spades will be good-down one.  |pg||sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|Let's look at the full deal:|pg||hc|sa|nt||ht|c|at|What happens if you win the first spade with the ace?|pg||
lc|sa|pc|sa|pg||
hc|d3|nt||ht|c|at|You play a diamond |pg||
lc|d3|pc|d3|hc|dk|at|and LHO wins. |pg||
lc|dk|pc|dkdd|pg||
hc|s4|nt||ht|c|at|He plays another spade |pg||
lc|s4|pc|sss9|at|and sets up the suit. |pg||
pc|sj|pg||
hc|d6|at|Now, when you play another diamond, |pg||
lc|d6|pc|ddd|hc|da|at|RHO wins |pg||
lc|da|pc|da|pg||
hs|ss|at|and cashes his spades to defeat you. |pg||ls|ss|up|13|hc|s8|nt||ht|c|at|Better is to duck the first spade. |pg||pc|s|pg||
lc|s8|hc|st|at|RHO continues, |pg||
lc|st|pc|st|pg||
hc|sj|at|but you win the jack |pg||
lc|sj|pc|sjss|pg||
hs|wd|at|and knock out the diamond. |pg||
ls|wd|pc|ddk|pg||pc|dd|pg||
hs|nhncnd|nt||ht|c|at|LHO is out of spades, so the defense can never set up the suit. |pg||
ls|nhndnc|nt||ht|c|at|For advanced players: |pg||up|10|hc|s9|at|Note that RHO can foil this plan by playing the @S9 at the first trick!  |pg||lc|s9|pc|s9|nt||ht|c|at|Now, you can't hold up. |pg||hc|sj|at|You have to win your @SJ |pg||
lc|sj|pc|sj|pg||
hs|wd|at|and when you play diamonds, |pg||
ls|wd|pc|d|pg||
hc|dk|at|LHO can win |pg||
lc|dk|pc|dkdd|pg||
hc|s4|at|and continue spades to defeat the contract.|pg||lc|s4|up|8|pf|y|nt||ht|c|at|You can now experiment with how the play of this deal could go by selecting the cards that you want to play for all 4 players. Click on the cards that you want to play. 

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