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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday  24th March 2019

West leads ©Ace followed by ♠4, plan your play in 3♣

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dealer North. Love All

                                    ♠          A Q 8 7 2

                                             2

                                             A K J

                                    ♣         A Q J 3

            ♠          10 6 4                                     ♠          K J 9 5

                     A K Q 8 4                                        9 7 6

                     Q 5 2                                               10 8 3

            ♣         9 8                                          ♣         6 4 2

                                    ♠          3

                                             J 10 5 3

                                             9 7 6 4

                                    ♣         K 10 7 5

W

N

E

S

 

1

NO

NO

2

DBL

NO

3

NO

NO

NO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I was playing on Ok Bridge with my partner she played this hand to perfection.

West Lead Ace of Hearts followed by low spade. With the low  spade switch, she decided that the spades were probably breaking 4:3 which in fact is the percentage play. With this in mind, she decided to set up the spades

She won the Ace and immediately trumped a spade. Next she took the Diamond finesse which worked. Now in dummy she played a third round of spades ruffing with the 7. She re-entered dummy with  top diamond  to ruff the last Spade knowing full well that neither opponent could over trump her. With the Spade queen now high she played her last club from hand overtaking with dummy’s club ace and drew the last trumps and claimed all the rest

She had made1 Spade, 3 Diamonds, 4 Clubs (from dummy which became the long hand) 3 Spade ruffs and 1 established Spade.

 

 

 

You can also play out the following hand  to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme  and it is available free from   http://www.haroldschogger.videoes.html or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it )

 

 

 
 

alternatively watch the film of the hand being played out by going to www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

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