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 IV }
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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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|fp||at|Welcome to the fourth in row deal of the third series.  |pg||

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|fp||at|This deal is the fourth 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 IV|
pn|You,West,Partner,East,South,West,North,East|md|2SKQT87HJ64DKJ4CQ3,S932H5DAQ876CKT98,SA5HT3DT532C76542|sv|b|sk|s|nt||ht|c|at|You are in 4th seat and see the South cards as shown: |pg||mb|pp1h|nt||ht|c|at|And see P P 1@H to you. Should you overcall? |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Even though you are vulnerable, and the hand looks ugly, you should stick in a 1@S bid.|pg||
mb|1s|pg||nt||ht|c|at|You never know when partner might be on lead - surely you'd like a spade lead. |pg||at|Furthermore, maybe your side can compete effectively for the partscore. |pg||mb|d|nt||ht|c|at|LHO makes a negative double |pg||mb|p4h|at|and RHO jumps to 4@H. |pg||mb|ppp|at|We'll see later how they coped with the negative double and response. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Meanwhile, it is your lead…. |pg||pc|sk|nt||ht|c|at|You lead the @SK and see this dummy: |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Do you like dummy's bidding? |pg||at|I agree completely with the negative double - a much better description than 2@D. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|In general, a negative double after 1@H (1@S) shows both minors - as here. |pg||pc|ssas|nt||ht|c|at|Partner overtakes with the @SA |pg||pc|ss|nt||ht|c|at|and plays another spade. And you? |pg||hc|st|nt||ht|c|at|You win the 10 |pg||
lc|st|pc|sts|pg||hc|sq|at|and cash the @SQ |pg||
lc|sq|pc|sqss|pg||
pc|cs|at|with partner throwing a discouraging club (right-side up attitude). |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Now what? |pg||at|Surely there are not tricks available in the minors (given declarer's jump to 4@H he must have the @CA and lots of hearts). |pg||sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|You do have a chance for a fourth trick. Do you see it? |pg||
nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat do you play now? ^^s8^h4s8d4c3|hs|ss|nt||ht|c|at|Play another spade. |pg||pc|s|ls|ss|at|Yes, this gives a ruff-sluff, |pg||pc|d|hc|ht|at|but if partner is smart enough to have the @H10 |pg||
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at|(and play it), you have created a trump trick via an uppercut. The ruff-sluff can't really hurt your side. |pg||hc|hakq|nt||ht|c|at|Declarer must overruff partner's @H10 |pg||
lc|hakq|at|(he did play it, right?) |pg||
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hc|hj|at|and your @HJ scores the setting trick.|pg||up|16|lc|hj|nt||ht|c|at|Next week we will play Deal 13 of this series and start a new theme.|pg||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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