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Answer to Hand of the week,

week commencing

Sunday 24th July   2011

 

 

The §10 is led, plan your play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q 10 4 3

 

 

 

 

 

A

 

 

 

 

 

K 4 3 2

 

 

 

 

 

A K 8 5

 

 

 

A 2

 

 

8 5

 

7 6 2

 

 

K J 10 4

 

Q 9 8

 

 

A J 10 6 5

 

Q 10 9 6 4

 

 

J 3

 

 

 

K J 9 7 6

 

 

 

 

 

Q 9 8 5 3

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

7 2

 

 

W

N

E

S

 

 

NO

NO

NO

1¨

NO

1ª

NO

4ª

NO

NO

NO

 

 

 

 

On this hand you need to try and establish your Hearts and in order to do that you will need all your trumps in dummy to ruff the hearts.

If you dare to draw one round of trumps and the trump suit breaks 3:1 when you try to ruff a final Heart by getting back to hand with a diamond you run the risk that the opponents will take another trump off the table cutting back on your ability to ruff Hearts.

With this in mind, you take the first two clubs and then ruff a club, play a Heart and then ruff another  Club and ruff a Heart. Now play a Diamond off the table (not normal play as you would like to lead up to the Diamond king when in hand but if you do this you will be a trick short at the end). They take the Ace and play trumps at you. The trumps have been drawn. You are now left with two  Hearts and one trump (you never shortened yourself earlier) and you merely concede one more Heart.

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

 

   
 

 

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