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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 26th December 2010
Partner leads the ♥3 and your 10 holds the first trick
Plan your defence
Dealer North ♠ Q 7 3 Both VUL
♥ K 7 6 2
♦ K 4 ♣ K J 3 2 ♠ 10 6 4 ♠ 9 8 5
♥ Q 9 8 3
♥ A J 10 5
♦ A 10 6
♦ 9 8 7 5 2
♣ Q 6 4 ♣ 8 ♠ A K J 2
♥ 4
♦ Q J 3 ♣ A 10 9 7 5
W
N
E
S
NO
NO
1♣
NO
1♥
NO
1♠
NO
2♦
NO
2NT
NO
3NT
NO
NO
NO
At trick
one you now know that partner has four, you have four and dummy has four and
that declarer started with just one Heart. Therefore you have to get partner in
to lead another Heart through to finesse against poor dummy’s Heart King. What is
the best way to get partner in? South’s main suits are the Black suits and after
a 4th suit forcing sequence declarer bid No Trump. You have to hope
that declarer’s Diamonds are at most QJ and hope partner has the missing Ace.
(NB If partner has something good in either of the Black suits the contract is
probably going off regardless) With
this in mind you switch to a Diamond at trick 2 and partner gratefully takes his
Ace and strangles poor declarer by playing back the
©Queen.
The defence takes the first five tricks to defeat this contract (just). 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
