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Hand of the week
 

Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 1st December 2024

Plan your play in 3 after the 2 is led

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Dealer: North  Vul Both

 
 
Q
A Q 7
10 7 4 2
A Q 10 7 4
 
K 9 5 3
J 3 2
J 8
K 9 5 2
  N  
W   E
 
  S  
7 6 2
9 8 6 5
A K 5
J 6 3
 
A J 10 8 4
K 10 4
Q 9 6 3
8
 
W N E S
  1 Pass 1
Pass 2 Pass 2
Pass 3 End  

Having escaped a trump lead, you now count your winners- You initially have 1 Spade, 3 Hearts and 1 Club so you will need to find 4 or more tricks. The hand is ripe for CROSS RUFFING when you have a singleton in one hand and a different singleton in the other hand.

The lead suggests that the Heart suit is breaking kindly i.e. 4:3. When performing a cross ruff it is vital to cash all the absolute winners in the other suits before the two defenders throw that suit away- here that suit is Hearts.

With all this in mind, cash 3 top Hearts and the other two aces, and then let the cross ruffing begin whereby you trump a spade in one hand and a club in the other. With everybody following suit you eventually make 3 Hearts, 1 Spade, 1 Club, 2 spade ruffs and 2 club ruffs and the Diamond Queen after trumping the third spade with the Ten in dummy. for a well played hand bringing home 10 tricks

(Why did I say having escaped a trump lead? Its going to be a lot more difficult if West were to lead a trump and take out three round of trumps straight away stopping you getting 4 cross ruffs in)

 

  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 )                        

alternatively watch the film of the hand being played out by going to www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

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