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Answer to Hand of the week,
week commencing
Sunday 22nd January 2012
How can you take out some insurance in your 3NT contract ?
♠ 9 3
♥ A K Q 9 6 5
♦ K 6 2
♣ 10 6
♠ K Q 7 6
♠ 8 5 2
♥ J
♥ 10 7 4 3
♦ J 9 7 5
♦ A 10
♣ K 9 8 5
♣ Q 7 3 2
♠ A J 10 4
♥ 8 2
♦ Q 8 4 3
♣ A J 4
W
N
E
S
1NT
NO
3NT
NO
NO
NO
You have managed to win the first trick cheaply. Most of
the other declarers will probably be playing in 4©.
You therefore need to beat them. The only serious problem on this hand for the
other declarers would be if the Hearts break badly and now declarer will be
looking at 1 Heart loser, 1 Spade loser 1 Diamond loser and 1 Club loser, in
fact going one off. If this is
the case we must play the contract out hoping for a bad Heart break, with the
Diamond Ace offside. At trick two
we therefore play a Heart and duck it, especially when the Jack appears at trick
two. West continues with a top Spade. We win and cash all the hearts relieved to
see the hearts breaking 4:1. We now play a Diamond for our 9th trick.
If East has the Ace and another Spade then the suit is OK. If West has the
Diamond Ace then our remaining two Spades act as a stopper. It is East who has
the Ace and he takes it and plays another Spade, Now the Spades are known to be
breaking no worse then 4:3 and the opponents can only cash two Spades. They cash
two spades and the rest of the tricks are ours. We made 2
Spades, 5 Hearts and a trick in each Minor losing just 1 Heart, 1 Diamond
and 2 Clubs. 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