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||
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fm|4|
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^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|5|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series IV - Deal III }
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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 third in row deal of the fourth series.  |pg||

nt||cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
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|fp||at|This is the third 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



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bg|6|st||qx|Board1|3d||ah|SKY&&Larry|ah|S IV - D III|
pn|South,Partner,North,You,South,West,North,East|md|1SKJ75HAT862D32CT7,ST942H9DAT4C98432,SAQHKQJ754D75CKJ5|sv|e|sk|e|nt||ht|c|at|This time you actually have a decent hand, but you probably know you won't end up declaring! |pg||mb|pp|nt||ht|c|at|After 2 passes, |pg||mb|1h|at|RHO opens 1@H. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|What should you do?|pg||nt||cq|1|lb|*bWhat should you do?^Double^2d,3d|mb|2d|at|You have a normal 2@D overcall. |pg||ub|1|mb|3d|nt||ht|c|at|However, if you chose to bid 3@D, I admire that call. |pg||at|Yes, you are heavy for a preempt, but opposite a passed partner, I don't mind mixing it up a bit. |pg||mb|4hppp|nt||ht|c|at|Regardless of your call, LHO jumps to 4@H and it is your lead. |pg||pc|dk|nt||ht|c|at|You have a normal @DK lead |pg||pc|ddtd|at|and partner signals with the 10 ( see here for more information about signaling - ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=263^*Í )|pg||nt||ht|c|at|Now what? |pg||nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat do you play now? ^^d8^dqd8cas8|nt||ht|c|at|Partner's signal is encouraging in diamonds. |pg||hs|ed|at|It is not count. It is not suit preference. You should continue diamonds. |pg||ls|ed|nt||ht|c|at|But, you want partner on lead. |pg||
hc|dq|at|Don't carelessly play the @DQ. |pg||
lc|dq|hc|d8|at|Play the @D8 to force him to win the ace if he has it. |pg||
lc|d8|pc|d8|pg||
pc|ddad|at|Partner wins the ace |pg||
pc|c9|at|and should figure out to switch to clubs (what else, looking at that dummy). |pg||
hc|cqca|nt||ht|c|at|You collect 2 club tricks and defeat the contract. |pg||up|4|lc|cqca|nt||ht|c|at|Yes, no matter which diamond you played at trick two, |pg||at|partner should have overtaken to play a club-but why not make it easier for him? |pg||up|1|pc|dq|at|If you played the @DQ, |pg||
pc|ddd|at|and he left you on lead, you'd have only yourself to blame. |pg||up|8|sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|The full deal: 
|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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