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Hand of the week, week commencing,
Sunday
17th January 2016
♠4 is led against your 3NT contract - plan your play
Dealer South Love All
♠ A J 9
♥ 8 5
♦ Q 10 9 4
♣ A 6 5 4
♠ Q 10 8 4 ♠ K 6 5 3
♥ K J 4 2 ♥ Q 9 3
♦ J 3 2 ♦ 8 5
♣ K J ♣ 10 9 8 2
♠ 7 2
♥ A 10 7 6
♦ A K 7 6
♣ Q 7 3
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1NT |
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NO |
2♣ |
NO |
2♥ |
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NO |
2NT |
NO |
3NT |
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NO |
NO |
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This hand also comes from the EBU Silver Plate semi finals and after a good start I messed up because I didn’t give myself the “extra chance”.
At trick 1 I played dummy’s ª9 pleased to see the King appear from East who now played another spade.
At the outset I now have 2 Spades, 1 Heart , hopefully all four Diamonds assuming a kind 3:2 break and 1 Club so therefore I needed one more and my only real hope was to finesse up to my Club Queen which I now did at trick 3 after winning the second trick with dummy’s Spade Jack.
When the finesse failed I had to go off.
Now let’s replay. If my only chance is to finesse the Club Queen there is little risk to cashing the Ace first. If I had cashed the Ace first and see the Jack appear I would now play West for a Doubleton King ( I expect that my right hand opponent might with 5 good clubs might have Doubled the Club bid for a lead). I now merely play a low club from each hand and watch as West’s King falls on air. Oh to be clever afterwards but nevertheless a column for the web page this week.
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