mn|SKY Club & Larry Cohen|tu||
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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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^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|5|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series IV - 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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|cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
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|fp||at|Welcome to the fourth in row deal of the fourth series.  |pg||

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|fp||at|This is the fourth 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 IV|
pn|You,West,Partner,East,South,West,North,East|md|2SJ873HJ52DT95CA54,SQT9HT3DQ76CJT987,S642HAKQ98D8432C6|sv|b|sk|s|nt||ht|c|at|Sorry about the poor hand, but next week the hands will get better. |pg||mb|pp2n|an|20 - 21|nt||ht|c|at|East opens 2NT (20-21) in 3rd seat |pg||mb|p3ntppp|at|and LHO raises to 3NT.  |pg||nt||ht|c|at|What would you lead?|pg||nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat would you lead? ^^s3^dts3h2|hc|dt|at|I suppose the @D10 could work out, |pg||
lc|dt|hc|s3|at|but I prefer 4th from my longest and strongest. |pg||
lc|s3|nt||ht|c|at|Also, dummy didn't use Stayman, |pg||pc|s|at|so spades surely won't be LHO's suit (while diamonds might be). |pg||
hc|s9|nt||ht|c|at|Dummy plays the 9 |pg||
lc|s9|pc|s9|pg||
pc|ss|at|and partner plays the deuce. |pg||
at|What should that mean? |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|In "Standard," partner tells you if he likes or dislikes the suit you've led. |pg||
at|If low is discouraging, you can assume he doesn't like spades. |pg||
up|2|pc|s6|nt||ht|c|at|If you play the opposite way, assume partner played the 6 (high would be discouraging). |pg||
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^*B**Note for advanced players-it is possible to use count at Trick 1 and later show your attitude with Smith Echo.** ^*N |pg||
up|1|pc|s2s|pg||
nt||ht|c|hc|cj|at|Dummy next plays the @CJ to you. |pg||
lc|cj|pc|cjcc|pg||
at|What is partner's signal and what should you do? |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|When ^*Ideclarer^*N leads a suit, partner gives his count. |pg||
at|For a full description of signals, click ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=263^*N |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|What should you play? |pg||
at|You should play low. |pg||
at|There is no hurry to grab your @CA - it isn't going anywhere. |pg||
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nt||ht|c|pc|ct|at|On the next club, |pg||pc|d|at|partner discards the @D2. |pg||
at|What is that? |pg||
nt||ht|c|at|In Standard, he is telling you his attitude about diamonds. |pg||
up|d2|pc|d8|at|Low discourages (if you play the opposite way, then he would play the @D8-this is called "Upside Down Attitude" in America, but is actually Standard in most other countries. Confusing, I know). |pg||
up|1|pc|d2cq|nt||ht|c|at|Declarer puts up the @CQ and since a hold up can't do much good, |pg||
hc|ca|at|you might as well take your ace. |pg||
lc|ca|pc|ca|pg||nt||ht|c|at|Now what? |pg||nt||cq|1|lb|*CWhat would you play? ^^h2^c5dth2s7|at|Partner doesn't like spades or diamonds, so let's try a heart. |pg||sk|y|nt||ht|c|at|Full deal:|pg||hs|nh|nt||ht|c|at|As you can see from the full deal, partner will cash 5 heart tricks to defeat the contract 2 tricks. |pg||ls|nh|at|Why didn't partner give you a clearer signal by throwing an encouraging heart? |pg||
up|3|pc|h8|nt||ht|c|at|A heart signal would have been with a trick. |pg||
up|1|pc|d2|at|By discouraging spades and diamonds, he trusted you to figure out the heart switch. |pg||up|10|nt||ht|c|at|Did you validate your partner's confidence in you? |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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