Hand of the week

Hand of the week

Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 21st July 2024

Plan your play in 5♥ after the ♦Ace is led followed by a trump switch.

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Dealer: North Vuln: E/W

♠	K 10 7 4 3 2
♥	A K 10 2
♦	10
♣	9 4

♠	J 8 6
♥	4
♦	A K J 9 7 2
♣	K 10 7

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	A Q 9
♥	-
♦	8 6 4 3
♣	J 8 6 5 3 2

♠	5
♥	Q J 9 8 7 6 5 3
♦	Q 5
♣	A Q

W	N	E	S
	1♠	Pass	2♥
3♦	3♠	5♦	Double
Pass	5♥	End

When counting your winners here, you have 8 Hearts and 1 Club so you will need to generate 2 more tricks.

On the losers front you have 1 spade loser, 1 club loser and 1 Diamond loser. So you will need to dispose of one of these losers.

Do you rely on the 50-50 shot of the club finesse or do you go for the spades in dummy. If the spades break 3:3 you will be OK or if the spades break 4:2 with a doubleton Ace. This seems better odds.

So after winning the trump, immediately play a Spade and finesse the Ten. West follows suit with the Queen and now plays a club.

You reject the club finesse and win with the Ace. Now re-enter dummy with a trump in order to play a second spade and everybody follows but no Ace falls. Now re-enter dummy a second time with a trump and trump another spade pleased to see the spades breaking 3:3. Now you can re-enter dummy one more time by trumping a Diamond and now play off the winning Spade and claim your contract.

You made 8 trumps, 1 Club, 1 diamond ruffed,1 established spade.

Hand of the week 14th July 2024

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