| Accept the lead and be dummy | In this case, winning the spade ace and switching to the diamond jack ensures five defensive tricks |
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| Aside recommendation to my fellow directors In my experience if I tell a player that he has five choices by the time I get to number 4, number one is ancient history, number two is medieval history and number 3 is fading fast I find it is more effective and easier to understand by telling a player that he has two choices to accept the Brian Zietman lead or not accept the lead and then to break it down to choices between these two alternatives | 79 8 40742 41547 49 |
Maybe by playing a Smith Echo or using 6 as heart suit preference? 00 3 5 20356 20357 47.
10| I know that it would have been better to play the jack | You are busy thinking about what lousy cards you have been receiving all session, thinking about how can you do well when you have such lousy cards, and are disturbed by the noise coming from an adjacent table and you hear the auction 1 diamond, 1 heart, 2 hearts, 3 hearts, 4 hearts |
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| Accept the lead, see the dummy and then you play the hand | The defense took four spade tricks and one diamond, setting the contract |
| I should have concealed the club distribution | Declarer plays the five, and I automatically play the ten |
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| North should be able to reason out that I cannot have a spade honor: after all, there are only 40 points in a deck of cards | Usually it is better that the weak hand is on the table |
I ducked once as partner signaled count, won the diamond continuation and, following partner's signals 3 on the second round of diamonds, low suit preference , returned the jack of clubs.
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