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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 10th July 2011
Playing Match Point , where every trick is vital, Partner leads your suit ♥6 plan your defence.
Declarer plays dummy’s King at trick one
♠ K 5
♥ K 7
♦ A K 9 6 5 3
♣ A 7 3 ♠ J 10 9 8 7 6 2
♠ A 3
♥ 6 2
♥ A 10 9 8 5
♦ J 4
♦ 8 2 ♣ 6 2 ♣ 10 9 8 4
♠ Q 4
♥ Q J 4 3
♦ Q 10 7 ♣ K Q J 5
W
N
E
S
NO
1♦
1♥
3NT
NO
NO
NO
After the dummy has gone down the bidding
has pinpointed every single point that you cannot see. Unless South is a
complete cretin South must have good Hearts and 13-15 points for his 3NT bid.
Dummy has17 and you have 8 which means your partner, the other defender, has no
more than 2 points. With this knowledge if declarer happens to have a 4 card
club suit you can now count declarer’s hand for 2/3 Hearts to come, 6 Diamonds
and 4 possible Clubs. To stop an easy 12 tricks you must cash your two Aces at
tricks 1 and 2 to obtain a well above average Match point score
(NB if you don’t take your Heart Ace
straight away and declarer plays a second Heart remember to cash your Spade Ace)
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 alternatively watch the film
www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm