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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 21st June 2015
§Queen is led won plan your play
Dealer West. Love All.
♠ Q 10 7 5
♥ A 7 2
♦ A K 10 4
♣ 9 7
♠ K ♠ 8 6 4 3 2
♥ K 10 9 6 ♥ 8 3
♦ Q J 3 ♦ 8 7 5 2
♣ Q J 10 8 5 ♣ 6 2
♠ A J 9
♥ Q J 5 4
♦ 9 6
♣ A K 4 3
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W |
N |
E |
S |
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NO |
1 ♦ |
NO |
1♥ |
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2♣ |
2♥ |
NO |
3NT |
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NO |
NO |
NO |
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When I played this hand online I totally messed up.
I held up the first trick to try and cut communications between the two defenders and subsequently took a Spade finesse, which lost. Convinced that West could not have the Heart King (as he had not opened initially) I now played off Ace and another Heart and went sailing off.
Now let's replay the hand sensibly.
After holding up I can play Ace and another Spade not minding if I lose to West and if the king doesn’t fall then I can always take the Heart finesse later.
So after winning the 2nd Club I should have played Ace and the King appears and I can now see why West didn’t open in the first place ( He discounted his Spade King when he counted his points)
I now took the Heart finesse which won
. I came back to hand with a spade and took the Diamond finesse into the safe hand(East) and West released the Queen- I returned to hand with the carefully persevered Spade to take another Diamond finesse through West and it succeeded. I was now home with 11 tricks instead of miserably going one off.
I had made 4 Spades, 2 Hearts, 3 Diamonds and 2 clubs.
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