Your regular partner is busy and you're reduced to playing with a particularly uncouth palooka at the club. At unfavourable vulnerability, you pick up ♠ Q7 ♥ AJT7 ♦ 42 ♣ AKT85 and open 1 ♣ as dealer, with some misgivings about your rebid. Upon hearing 1 ♦ from your palooka partner, you bid the automatic 1 ♥. At your next turn—a crashboombang later—you can only pass the palooka's 7 ♣ “rebid”. Your fears are somewhat allayed when dummy hits the table:
♠ AKT
♥ 5
♦ AK873
♣ Q972
♠ Q7
♥ AJT7
♦ 42
♣ AKT85
Lead: ♠ 5
Your uncouth partner is sure to give it to you unabashedly if you go down. Avoid this sorry fate.
Second, assume your partner bid only 6 ♣. Now how do you take insurance against a volley of abuse?
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Playing 7:
Win the lead and cash CA. If trumps are 4-0 on the left, key is to ruff dummy's D good. Ruff them high so you can take C finesses at the end.
If trumps are 4-0 on the right, you have to take a view in the red suits; best is likely to be to ruff two H in dummy and take trump finesses/a trump coup in D.
Playing 6, it's all a lot easier as you only need to protect against freaky breaks in the majors.
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