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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 26th April 2015
Plan your play in 4♠ after ♠7 lead
Dealer North. None Vul.
♠ 10 9
♥ J 10 9 8 7 3
♦ A 6
♣ A Q 8
♠ 7 2 ♠ Q J 6 4
♥ A Q 6 4 ♥ K 5
♦ Q 10 8 4 2 ♦ J 7 3
♣ J 2 ♣ 7 6 4 3
♠ A K 8 5 3
♥ 2
♦ K 9 5
♣ K 10 9 5
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W |
N |
E |
S |
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1♠ |
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NO |
2♥ |
NO |
2♠ |
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NO |
3♠ |
NO |
4♠ |
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NO |
NO |
NO |
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This is a nice hand for keeping trump control and for counting losers in your 4ª contract.
After the Spade lead you have 2 Top Spades, 2 Top Diamonds and 3 top clubs totalling 7 winners
On the loser trail you no club losers, no Diamond losers, as you can ruff one Diamond in dummy, the short hand, 1 Heart loser and possibly 2 Spade losers. In fact you can now afford 2 Spade losers and the Heart
With this in mind you win first trick and play three rounds of Diamonds ruffing the third round in dummy. You now give up a Heart in order to be able to get back to hand to draw a second round of trumps. East takes his King and plays a club.
You are now completely in control as you get free finesse of your §8 with West playing the Jack. You ruff a Heart and play one round of trumps and then play on clubs carefully overtaking dummy's queen and you make 4 clubs, 2 Diamonds, 2 Spades 1 Diamond ruffed and one long trump eventually.
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