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Answer to Hand of the week, week commencing
Sunday 24th October 2010
The ♦ 4 is led won by East with the Ace who then fires back the 6
Plan your Play
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A Q 3 |
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A 3 |
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J 9 8 3 |
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A K 6 4 |
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K 6 2 |
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J 10 9 7 5 4 |
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Q 9 7 4 |
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4 2 |
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A Q 6 |
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Q 7 5 3 |
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J 10 8 |
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8 |
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K 10 8 6 5 2 |
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K 10 7 5 |
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9 2 |
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2♥ |
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4♥ |
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With eight cards in Diamonds between the two hands, the lead looks like a singleton so there is very little point in sticking the King on at trick two. If it turns out that West has led from three to the Queen and now gives his partner a Diamond ruff, then there is always the possibility that the player receiving the ruff started with three trumps and the natural trump trick has now gone. (NB the ¨4 looks like top of doubleton since the 2 has not appeared at trick two from East when the 6 came back).
Therefore at trick two you play low and when West follows suit with the 2 you can win in dummy. With trumps misbehaving you have to lose just one Diamond but two trumps.
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
