Hand of the week

Hand of the week

Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 25th August 2024

Plan your play in 4♥ after the ♠Queen is led

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Dealer: South Vuln: All

♠	10 6 2
♥	Q 5 4
♦	A 9 8 2
♣	A J 6

♠	Q J 7 5
♥	6
♦	K 10 7 6
♣	Q 7 5 3

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	A 4 3
♥	K 10 2
♦	J 5 4
♣	10 8 4 2

♠	K 9 8
♥	A J 9 8 7 3
♦	Q 3
♣	K 9

W	N	E	S
			1♥
Pass	2♦	Pass	2♥
Pass	3♥	Pass	4♥
End

I was somewhat surprised when this hand was played against me in only 3♥ and then declarer only made 8 tricks when there were various ways to make up to 11 tricks.

After winning the spade continuation at trick two it is now a sensible idea to play clubs and hopefully finesse the Jack to chuck a loser (either a spade or a Diamond).

So you should cash the king followed by a finesse of the Jack which wins. You can now dump a Diamond.

Now play Heart Queen ready to finesse- up pops the King and you should Ace it. The statistics now say that the Heart suit is more likely to be 3:1 than 2:2 so go over to dummy with the Diamond Ace and now finesse West for the missing Ten when West follows low insert the 9 which holds.

Now draw the last trump and you make all the remaining tricks except a spade.

You eventually made 1 Spade, 6 Hearts, 1 Diamond and 3 clubs losing just 2 spades.

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.com/movies.html )

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

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