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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 13th February 2011
Plan your play in 4© in Match Point Pairs
Dealer South ♠ — Love All
♥ K 10 5 4
♦ K 10 6 5 4 3
♣ Q 8 4 ♠ A 6 3 ♠ K J 10 9 8
♥ 9 8
♥ 7 3
♦ A Q 8 7
♦ J 9 2 ♣ K 7 6 2 ♣ J 9 3 ♠ Q 7 5 4 2
♥ A Q J 6 2
♦ — ♣ A 10 5
W
N
E
S
1♠
NO
2♦
NO
2♥
NO
4♥
NO
NO
NO
Like last week this hand is ripe for a
cross ruff. However if you draw two rounds of trumps
you only make 10 tricks. At trick one when you try the Queen it
holds. As with all cross ruff situations cash the Ace of clubs next before
embarking on the cross ruff. Because your trumps are so good, you will now be
able to ruff 4 Spades in dummy and all 5 clubs in hand bringing your total to
11 for a very good Match Point score beating all those who ill advisedly drew
two rounds of trumps. You can also view
watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe
programme or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) and it is available free
from
http://www.haroldschogger.com/videos.htm
