{"id":162,"date":"2014-09-03T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=162"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:06:35","slug":"killing-the-discard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Killing The Discard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kill-The-Discard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kill-The-Discard-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Kill The Discard\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kill-The-Discard-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kill-The-Discard.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are sitting East. \u00a0North, in 3rd seat, opens 1NT. \u00a0You overcall 2D, passed around to North, who bids 2H, ending the auction. \u00a0You lead the Diamond Ace, partner playing the Jack, then continue with the Diamond King, fetching the 2 from partner and the Queen from declarer. \u00a0What do you do now?<\/p>\n<p>By cashing the A and K you have established Dummy&#8217;s Diamond 10 as a winner for a late discard. \u00a0You should play a 3rd diamond. \u00a0You know North can overruff your partner but you will prevent him from using that discard later. \u00a0You&#8217;ll win 4 tricks: \u00a02 diamonds, a club, and a spade, holding the contract to 3. \u00a0If you play on anything else you allow declarer to make 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are sitting East. \u00a0North, in 3rd seat, opens 1NT. \u00a0You overcall 2D, passed around to North, who bids 2H, ending the auction. \u00a0You lead the Diamond Ace, partner playing the Jack, then continue with the Diamond King, fetching the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=162\">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\/162"}],"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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}