When should we play our winners defending against 1NT? - with Adam Parrish

[@peterrobinson1957]

Good to see even a pro like Adam can struggle with a hand like this and maybe not play it the best. I suppose that following the logic that Adam started where he counts declarer with 6 clubs and 3 or 4 diamonds that means declarer has only 3 or 4 cards left that must be either spades or hearts. Law of averages would say the queen of hearts is most likely to be in the hand with most hearts and that is partner and so he should have not played his ace heart hoping for a singleton queen to drop

[@guidomongeri9711]

what is T?

[@LearnBridgeOnline]

T = 10 :)

[@kvom01]

In duplicate you rarely get a good result letting opponents play 1nt. Unfortunately there's not much choice on this hand. Declarer erred by ducking the opening lead; had he taken the A he has 9 tricks at least on top and likely more as N has discard problems.

[@davearmstrong682]

After 1H p1NT p p you are in the protection seat. West has not got spades. Partner is marked with something in spades and they have diamond fit

[@LearnBridgeOnline]

Nice thought, Dave, but not necessarily: if both opponents have 3 spades, Partner could just have two little ones. Hope this helps!

[@jwy4264]

I dont think ghat if west bide 2 H that you should bid 2 S. partner may have a singleton, opps can easily hold 22 pts

[@ingridkemp1524]

If your 8 is AKJ

[@brianleonard6885]

Total disagree you can say 1 spade if nothing else you've told partner something and when defending nt your only hope is to play low hear p wins and and plays spades for set oos said he didn't have 3 hearts........

[@LearnBridgeOnline]

By bidding 1S, you are asking your partner to lead a spade: a good question to ask yourself is, "How would I feel if Partner led a spade from Hx against NT?" If the answer is "Pretty embarrassed!", don't overcall. On this hand, Partner leading from Hx could well be disastrous! Hope this helps, Brian! :)