{"id":157,"date":"2014-09-03T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=157"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:51:28","slug":"ask-yourself-why-is-declarer-doing-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Ask Yourself &#8220;Why Is Declarer Doing That?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/What-Is-Declarer-Doing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/What-Is-Declarer-Doing.jpg\" alt=\"What Is Declarer Doing\" width=\"205\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are sitting North. \u00a0You opened 1D in 3rd seat, East overcalled 1S, your partner raised to 2D, West cued 3D, and East signed off in 3S. \u00a0The opening lead is is the Diamond 4 to the Queen King and Ace. \u00a0Declarer plays the Heart Queen, won by your partner with the King. \u00a0She cashes the Diamond Jack and leads a Heart to your Ace, East following. \u00a0What should you do now?<\/p>\n<p>You have 3 tricks in the bag and you have the Club Ace. \u00a0You just need one more trick to set the contract. \u00a0It seems as if your partner wants you to give her a heart ruff. \u00a0Should you? \u00a0Before you do, you should ask yourself, &#8220;Why is declarer playing hearts and exposing himself to a ruff? \u00a0Why didn&#8217;t he draw trumps?&#8221; \u00a0He can&#8217;t be worried about diamonds, as he can ruff his last one easily. \u00a0The main reason for playing hearts is to establish the suit for discards. \u00a0What could he be hoping to discard? \u00a0Clubs. \u00a0You can play the Club Ace and look for a signal from partner. \u00a0If she encourages then play another club. \u00a0If she discourages, try for the heart ruff. \u00a0This gives you two chances to find the setting trick.<\/p>\n<p>What actually happened at the table? \u00a0Declarer ruffed the third heart high, with the King. \u00a0He then pulled trumps and discarded 2 clubs on the hearts to make his contract. \u00a0If you play the Club Ace your partner will signal with the 9. \u00a0A second club sets the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are sitting North. \u00a0You opened 1D in 3rd seat, East overcalled 1S, your partner raised to 2D, West cued 3D, and East signed off in 3S. \u00a0The opening lead is is the Diamond 4 to the Queen King and&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=157\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}