Thank you Sibrand. You’re obviously a fine player. There is something that bothers me that the experts do on the video and it’s not just you. Your mind works so fast that often only bits and pieces of your thinking process end up being spoken. I wish that you and the otherexperts would take more time with your analysis so that we average players can fully understand the inferences you make and the decisions that you reach. Thank you again. It was a pleasure.
Had some luck on that set... On B1 (3D), I won because I put in the heart Q instead of the K? East covered with the ace, which let me win an overtrick. I don't know why the play of the Q vs K from dummy would cause that change. Well done making the slam on B3: the club lead was indeed lucky. I was in NT and tried for a 3-2 split in clubs. It turns out playing for a lucky lie of the spades was the winning line... Ah well! On B4 (spades contract), I passed and supported the second time to show weakness with 4+ card support. Partner still raised to 3S: at least it wasn't game, so down one for the win! Thank you for coming back and having another go on the daily celebrity challenge!
Thank you for the analysis, Sibrand. You were wondering what would have happened on board 1 if you had drawn trumps and led a second round of hearts rather than tracking the low spade. That's what I did. The second round of hearts went ten, king, ace. Lia East did find the spade king exit after cashing one round of clubs. Same result as you.
Board 1. I played small from dummy on the heart lead. If the defense finds a spade shift, it won't help, but they did not . They cashed a club and played a trump. Now I have time to draw trump and finesse against the Ten. This does not seem very risky since it only costs if east has AJ or AT of hearts and takes his ace and then plays a club to partner and gets a ruff. Now they can lead Spades, but it is too slow. .At this point they only have only 4 tricks, which is what you expect to lose by playing the Kh at trick 1.
Same. 6N is defeated on a heart lead, though. Fortunately, partner declared no spade stop so we got the favorable spade lead, too. Was super jealous of the club lead against Diamonds - lol
Thank you Sibrand. You’re obviously a fine player. There is something that bothers me that the experts do on the video and it’s not just you. Your mind works so fast that often only bits and pieces of your thinking process end up being spoken. I wish that you and the otherexperts would take more time with your analysis so that we average players can fully understand the inferences you make and the decisions that you reach. Thank you again. It was a pleasure.
Had some luck on that set... On B1 (3D), I won because I put in the heart Q instead of the K? East covered with the ace, which let me win an overtrick. I don't know why the play of the Q vs K from dummy would cause that change.
Well done making the slam on B3: the club lead was indeed lucky. I was in NT and tried for a 3-2 split in clubs. It turns out playing for a lucky lie of the spades was the winning line... Ah well!
On B4 (spades contract), I passed and supported the second time to show weakness with 4+ card support. Partner still raised to 3S: at least it wasn't game, so down one for the win!
Thank you for coming back and having another go on the daily celebrity challenge!
Thank you for the analysis, Sibrand. You were wondering what would have happened on board 1 if you had drawn trumps and led a second round of hearts rather than tracking the low spade. That's what I did. The second round of hearts went ten, king, ace. Lia East did find the spade king exit after cashing one round of clubs. Same result as you.
Board 1. I played small from dummy on the heart lead. If the defense finds a spade shift, it won't help, but they did not . They cashed a club and played a trump. Now I
have time to draw trump and finesse against the Ten. This does not seem very risky since it only costs if east has AJ or AT of hearts and takes his ace and then plays a club to partner and gets a ruff. Now they can lead Spades, but it is too slow. .At this point they only have only 4 tricks, which is what you expect to lose by playing the Kh at trick 1.
how did you persuade Lia to lead a club from Jxxx against the D slam?
4 draws... found 6N on B3, made after Lia W led a S. Rather boring set.
Same. 6N is defeated on a heart lead, though. Fortunately, partner declared no spade stop so we got the favorable spade lead, too.
Was super jealous of the club lead against Diamonds - lol
Same as you both, 4 chops, made 6NT on bd 3 thanks to a S lead.