mn|SKY Club & Larry Cohen|tu||
cr|1255|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|5100|cg|5230|
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||
fm|1|
fm|2|
fm|3|
fm|4|
bt||bg|1|nt||fp|1|
cs|5|3d|3|at|


^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
^-
|cs|5|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series IV - Deal II }
|fp|4|ht|w|at|

|at|}
^-

|fp|4|ht|y|at|^- The analyses are kindly made and shared for you by Larry Cohen.
^*Hwww.larryco.com^*N
|at
pg||bg|6|nt|
|cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
^-
|fp||at|Welcome to the second in row deal of the fourth series.  |pg||

nt||cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
^-
|fp||at|This is the second week in a series of four deals, all relating to signaling. 

To read more about this, please see:
 ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=263^*N



|pg||
bg|6|st||qx|Board1|3d||ah|SKY&&Larry|ah|S IV - D II|
pn|You,West,Partner,South,South,West,North,East|md|4S84HQ82DJT82CJT62,SQT63HAKT93DAQCQ7,SAK92H75D965CA984|sv|n|sk|s|nt||ht|c|at|Sorry about the poor hand, but stay alert. |pg||mb|pp1h|nt||ht|c|at|LHO opens 1@H in 3rd seat  |pg||mb|p2h|at|and RHO raises to 2@H. |pg||mb|p2s|an|game try suit|at| LHO makes a natural game try with 2@S  |pg||mb|p3hppp|at|and RHO signs off in 3@H, buying the contract.  |pg||pc|sa|nt||ht|c|at|Partner leads the @SA. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|What are your thoughts about dummy's bidding? |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Dummy might have made a counter-try (I like 2NT), |pg||at|but maybe he didn't like his flat shape and lack of 10's or 9's. |pg||hc|s8|nt||ht|c|at|Assuming "standard," you play hi-lo to show a doubleton. |pg||lc|s8|pc|ss8s|at|See my article here - ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=263^*N on signaling. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|The ace lead is obviously from ace-king (nobody lays down aces without the king). |pg||at|Your signal is not really "count," but attitude. |pg||at|. If you had the Queen, you'd also want to encourage, so your 8 would be the proper play from Q82 (assuming that high means you like the suit). |pg||pc|sk|nt||ht|c|at|Partner continues with the @SK. |pg||pc|sss|at|He knows from your hi-lo that you are encouraging spades. |pg||pc|s2s|nt||ht|c|at|He plays the @S2 |pg||hc|h2|at|and you ruff. |pg||lc|h2|pc|h2s|pg||pc|sa|nt||ht|c|at|Now what?|pg||nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat do you play now? ^^c6^cjc6djd2|at|Partner's @S2 is a suit-preference signal. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Whenever partner is giving you a ruff, he should indicate where his side strength lies. |pg||
lc|hakq|at|Since he played his lowest spade, you should return the lowest-ranking suit, clubs. |pg||pc|c6|nt||ht|c|at|I like the @C6 - you want partner to take his presumed CA and play another spade. |pg||
up|1|pc|cj|nt||ht|c|at|Leading the @CJ could tempt him to duck. |pg||up|1|pc|c6|at|On the Club play, |pg||
pc|ccac|at|partner takes the ace, |pg||pc|s|at|and as hoped for he plays another spade. |pg||hc|hj|nt||ht|c|at|Dummy tries the @HJ, |pg||
lc|hj|pc|hj|pg||pc|hqs|nt||ht|c|at|but you overruff with the @HQ for down 1. |pg||up|20|sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|The full deal: |pg||nt||ht|c|at|I guess East did well not to go to 4@H. On the other hand, he might have done well in notrump with a diamond lead. 
 |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. 

The  ^$6  button on the toolbar below can be used at any point to take back the last card that you played. |