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Dealer
North |
ª |
9 6 5 3
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N/S
Vulnerable |
© |
A
7 6 |
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¨ |
Q
9 4 |
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§ |
Q
J 3 |
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N |
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ª |
J
4 |
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ª |
K
Q 10 8 2
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© |
10
9 4 |
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W
E |
© |
5
3 |
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¨ |
J
6 3 2 |
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¨ |
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§ |
K
7 4 2 |
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§ |
A
10 9 8 6 5 |
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S |
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ª |
A
7 |
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Lead
§2 |
© |
K
Q J 8 2 |
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¨ |
A
K 10 8 7 5 |
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§ |
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W |
N |
E |
S |
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NO |
1§ |
1¨
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NO |
1NT |
2ª |
3© |
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NO |
3NT |
NO
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5©
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NO |
6¨ |
NO |
NO |
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NO |
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How
can you guarantee making 12tricks rather than carelessly going one down ?
This hand comes from the EBU Spring congress 2005 and
those players who were a little careless were soon rueing their “bad” luck
after trick 2.
As long as you play the Diamond suit faultlessly (rather than thoughtlessly) you can always guarantee to make 6 tricks out of 6 even if there is a 4:0 break- you can always capture the opponents Jack no matter who has it. You will need to keep the K10 tenace in hand and the Q9 tenace in dummy. Therefore you begin by cashing the Ace first to see the lie of the land. Once you do this and discover the bad 4:0 break you can now finesse dummy’s trump 9 , then return to hand via a club ruff in order to draw the last trump. Now cash 5 further Hearts. You have made 1 Spade, 5 Hearts and 6 Diamonds and have never put the contract into jeopardy. Those of you who took the “play the high card from the short hand” route, when drawing trumps, will fail on this hand .