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Answer to Hand of the week, week commencing Sunday 26th February 2012
Plan your play in 4ª now on Vubridge, more detailed answer below
Dealer North ♠ K 9 3
Love All
♥ A 10 4 2
♦ K 7 4
♣ A K J
♠ Q 4 2
♠ J 10
♥ J 5
♥ Q 8 7 3
♦ Q 10 3 2
♦ A 9 6
♣ Q 10 8 6
♣ 9 7 5 4
♠ A 8 7 6 5
♥ K 9 6
♦ J 8 5
♣ 3 2
W
N
E
S
1♥
NO
1♠
NO
2NT
NO
3♥
NO
3♠
NO
4♠
NO
NO
NO
On this hand you have just an initial
count of 6 winners – 3 Ace Kings. If the trumps break 3:2 then you will
have two more trump tricks bringing the total to 8. You will therefore need to
find two more. The lead is more likely to be from a Queen than an Ace so
therefore you will need to let the first trick come around to your hand. The tenth trick will have to come from a
successful Club finesse. There is no point in ruffing Clubs, because if you do
that you are ruffing in the long hand and you have already calculated those
tricks in your trump trick assessment. So you let the first trick come around to
your Jack.. East wins and fires Back a Diamond. You draw two rounds of trumps
ending up in hand and take a successful Club finesse. On the third round of
Clubs you can now discard a Diamond loser. You will take 4 trumps, 2 Hearts, 1
Diamond and 3 Clubs. 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 alternatively watch the film
www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
