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 NewRoman|fi|2y|fb|2y|fu||
fh|379|ff|3Arial|fi||fb||fu||
fh|410|ff|4Arial|fi||fb|4y|fu||
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bt||bg|1|nt||fp|1|
cs|5|3d|3|at|


^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|5|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series III - Deal III }
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|fp||at|Welcome to the third in a row deal of the third series.  |pg||

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|fp||at|This deal is the third 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 III|
pn|You,West,Partner,East,South,West,North,East|md|1SAKT9HJ7D76CKJT93,S876H92DAKJ92CQ82,SQJ43HAKQ4D854C65|sv|e|sk|s|nt||ht|c|at|You hold these South cards in first seat with only the opponents vulnerable:|pg||mb|1c|nt||ht|c|at|You open 1@C |pg||mb|1d|at|and LHO overcalls 1@D. |pg||mb|d|nt||ht|c|at|Partner doubles. What does this show? |pg||nt||ht|c|at|On this specific auction, partner guarantees at least 4-4 in the majors. |pg||at|If he had only one major he would have bid it (promising only 4 cards there). |pg||ub|1|mb|1h|nt||ht|c|at|1@C (1@D) 1@H shows 4+@H.   |pg||ub|1|mb|1s|at|1@C (1@D) 1@S shows 4+@S. |pg||ub|1|mb|d|at|1@C (1@D) X shows 4+@H and 4+@S. |pg||mb|2d|nt||ht|c|at|RHO raises to 2@D and it is up to you. |pg||

nt||cq|3|lb|*mYour call is?^Double~2@s~3@s^2|nt||ht|c|at|You should bid 2@S. |pg||
mb|2s|at|This freebid simply shows 4@S and nothing special (any shape, minimum strength). |pg||
mb|p4sppp|nt||ht|c|at|Partner raises to 4@S |pg||pc|da|at|and the @DA is led.|pg||nt||ht|c|at|Your thoughts? |pg||nt||ht|c|at|You should count losers. |pg||hs|sdnd|at|Two in diamonds |pg||
ls|sdnd|hs|scnc|at|and at least 1 in clubs. |pg||ls|ncsc|at|This looks like it will come down to the club suit. |pg||pc|ddd|pg||pc|dkddd|nt||ht|c|at|LHO continues with a second |pg||pc|ddds|at|and third round of diamonds which you ruff. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Now what? |pg||at|The next decision is always "Draw or not Draw Trump?" |pg||
hs|nsss|at|Here, there is no reason to postpone drawing, so you do so. |pg||ls|nsss|pc|sasss|pg||
pc|sksss|pg||
pc|sssh|pg||nt||ht|c|at|They split 3-2 |pg||hs|nhsh|at|and you cash the hearts |pg||
ls|shnh|pc|hhhjh|pg||pc|hhhh|pg||
pc|hhcd|pg||pc|hhcd|at|to reach: |pg||hc|c5|nt||ht|c|at|You play a club from dummy |pg||
lc|c5|pc|cc|at|and RHO plays low. |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|This is the moment of truth. |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|What do you play? |pg||
nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat do you play now? ^^ck^cjck|
hc|cj|nt||ht|c|at|In general, when faced with this guess, I put in the jack.  |pg||lc|cj|nt||ht|c|at|Most RHO's either grab the ace if they have it, |pg||at|or at least think about grabbing it. |pg||at|So, when they play low smoothly, |pg||at|I assume the ace is on my left-which is why I put in the jack. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|But here, I have a clue from the bidding. East raised to 2@D.  |pg||at|On what?  I don't think he would make that bid (vulnerable, no less) with only the @DQ and @CQ. I expect he has the @CA for his bid. |pg||hc|ck|nt||ht|c|at|So, you should put up the @CK  |pg||
lc|ck|pc|ckc|pg||
at|and as you can see, you make your contract. |pg||sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|At other tables, no doubt, East will hop with the @CA and make it much easier on declarer.|pg||up|44|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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