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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 10th February 2019
King of clubs led plan your play in 5¨
Dealer South NS Vul.
♠ A J 9
♥ Q 10 9
♦ Q J 10 7 5 2
♣ 5
♠ K 5 2 ♠ Q 10 8 6 3
♥ K 7 6 4 ♥ J 8 3
♦ — ♦ K 4
♣ K Q J 9 8 3 ♣ 10 7 6
♠ 7 4
♥ A 5 2
♦ A 9 8 6 3
♣ A 4 2
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S |
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DBL |
RDB |
1♠ |
NO |
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2♣ |
4♦ |
NO |
5♦ |
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NO |
NO |
NO |
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How would you play 5¨? Would you play for the drop or would you finesse the Diamonds? Are there any clues?
During the auction West doubled suggesting shortage in Diamonds for his original Double. So you will finesse the Diamond and bring the whole suit in for no losers? What about Hearts? Should you play Ace and then low towards the Q10 finessing the Ten or should you go straight in with the Queen when West plays low. Any clues here? Yes West doubled so surely he is more likely to hold the king to bring his hand up to scratch to make the original Take-out double, So when you play Ace and then finesse up to the Queen you will bring in 2 tricks from Hearts.
You will now get home making 1 Spade, 2 Hearts, 6 Diamonds 1 Club and 1 Spade ruffed in hand (the short hand)
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You can also view watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme and it is available free from http://www.haroldschogger.com/videos.html or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) |
alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
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