Your play to trick 2.
Both
South
N
North
♠
A7653
♥
10
♦
AJ65
♣
975
W
West
♠
—
♥
—
♦
—
♣
—
♦A
E
East
♠
KJ10
♥
Q32
♦
KQ97
♣
AK6
S
South
♠
—
♥
—
♦
—
♣
—
Match Points. Partner plays D4, the declarer D2.
Your next play.
Lets not go about critiquing the bidding 🙂
All the possible match points on this deal at stake. Either a cold top or a cold bottom.
We were playing standard signals, which means low from odd, high from even and high encouraging. Also could add low discouraging.
The opponents weren’t playing all types of 4 level major openings showing shades of strength.
W
West
N
North
E
East
S
South
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Pass
4♥
Pass
4NT
Pass
6♥
All Pass
0
You should shift to a small Spade or better still the Seven of Spades. It’s unlikely that the declarer will play the King from the dummy & will play the Jack. . Assuming partner has the Queen of Spades, he will win & shoot back a Spade.If the declarer has two Spades , you get a clear top , with one Diamond two Spade tricks.
However poor opponents methods, they don’t not respond to 4nt unless they have a problem – a void.
Its possible that declarer has a club void, but unlikely – your pd might’ve bid 5c over 4n with 7 of them.
Given that, you can pretty much count declarer for 8h 2d 2c tricks. Only hope seems to be to find declarer with 4 diamonds. Play one and hope pd can ruff