Hand of the week

Hand of the week

Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 12th January 2025

Plan you defence of 3♥ What are you going to lead?

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Dealer: South Vuln: All

♠	7 6 4
♥	A 9 6 4 3 2
♦	7 6 4
♣	10

♠	A 5 3
♥	8 5
♦	A K 9
♣	J 9 8 6 5

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	Q J 10 9 8
♥	10 7
♦	10 8 3 2
♣	A 2

♠	K 2
♥	K Q J
♦	Q J 5
♣	K Q 7 4 3

W	N	E	S
			1NT¹
Pass	2♦²	Pass	2♥
Pass	Pass	2♠	3♥
Pass	Pass	Pass

1. 1NT is 15-17 2. transfer to Hearts

Although partner bid 2♠ you should lead from your Ace King of diamonds and see what is going on.

After seeing dummy, play a second and third round of Diamonds. No hurry to play partner's suit yet as you have Ace over declarer in that suit.

Declarer wins the third diamond and draws trumps. Declarer now plays a top club and your dear partner wins with the Ace and promptly plays the Spade Queen. This immediately creates a finesse position against "poor" declarer and you and partner now take 2 tricks in spades together with 2 Diamonds and 1 club.

The main point of this hand is not to get busy leading partner's suit and continue to just being passive.

You can also play out the following hand to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme and it is available free from http://www.haroldschogger.com/movies.html )

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