Nice idea as long as West doesn’t think about it. Looking at all 4 hands, it may be tempting to say “How could South play West for 2 major suit singletons” or at least the SJ alone and shortage in hearts. That H could easily (according to method) be from 98x(x) 8xx, 108x(x) or whatever, though. Even East dropping the HJ at T1 isn’t a giveaway – West might just have led the H8 from 98xxx in which case S being 1-3 appears more likely. .
Regards,
Iain
bobbywolffMarch 5th, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Hi Iain,
Appreciate your comment and methinks that many players, with no ugly intentions, and, of course, perhaps one with, might tend, without evil intent (ha ha), shall we say, lead it fast, if it is a singleton, to which (at least IMO) it might benefit the declarer this time who happens, to notice its prompt presence, therein allowing a wise dummy player to also notice the significantly lightening lead.
Whether we like it or not, bridge cannot help but be a game to which we need to basically take a non-required oath to, shall we say, lean over backward, not to take advantage, the price of which, might surely be a very poor result on this hand, but conceivably a wonderful teaching hand on how we can vastly improve the game by, cunningly do the opposite thing to which partner is so hard trying to make it easy for you (please laugh now, DO NOT JUST THINK).
Just trying to make your blog a valuable tool for allowing an ugly part of our game to become, somewhat limited in scope.
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HI Barry, Folks,
Nice idea as long as West doesn’t think about it. Looking at all 4 hands, it may be tempting to say “How could South play West for 2 major suit singletons” or at least the SJ alone and shortage in hearts. That H could easily (according to method) be from 98x(x) 8xx, 108x(x) or whatever, though. Even East dropping the HJ at T1 isn’t a giveaway – West might just have led the H8 from 98xxx in which case S being 1-3 appears more likely. .
Regards,
Iain
Hi Iain,
Appreciate your comment and methinks that many players, with no ugly intentions, and, of course, perhaps one with, might tend, without evil intent (ha ha), shall we say, lead it fast, if it is a singleton, to which (at least IMO) it might benefit the declarer this time who happens, to notice its prompt presence, therein allowing a wise dummy player to also notice the significantly lightening lead.
Whether we like it or not, bridge cannot help but be a game to which we need to basically take a non-required oath to, shall we say, lean over backward, not to take advantage, the price of which, might surely be a very poor result on this hand, but conceivably a wonderful teaching hand on how we can vastly improve the game by, cunningly do the opposite thing to which partner is so hard trying to make it easy for you (please laugh now, DO NOT JUST THINK).
Just trying to make your blog a valuable tool for allowing an ugly part of our game to become, somewhat limited in scope.