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Answer to Hand of the week, week commencing
Sunday 29th August 2010
What do you lead at trick one and what do you expect from partner ?
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Dealer South |
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10 8 4 2 |
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Love All |
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K 7 5 |
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J 5 |
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K Q J 9 |
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J 6 5 |
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A Q 7 3 |
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♥ |
9 |
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J 4 3 2 |
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A K 8 7 |
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Q 10 9 3 2 |
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10 8 7 3 2 |
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♠ |
K 9 |
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A Q 10 8 6 |
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6 4 |
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A 6 5 4 |
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1© |
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NO |
1♠ |
NO |
2♣ |
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3♣ |
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3© |
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4© |
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Have you listened to the auction ? If so a club should be your lead. You know that both opponents have bid clubs which marks your partner with a club void and you know that if you lead a club he should be ruffing the first trick. Now what do you want partner to play next. Of course you want him to play back a Diamond so that you can give him another ruff. So you will need to make a suit preference signal at trick one.
Lead the §2 and partner will ruff. Because you led the 2 partner should read this as a suit preference signal and play back a Diamond to your King. You will give him another ruff. He will play back another diamond and you will give him a third ruff and the contract goes two off before declarer has had a chance to draw breath with the Spade Ace still to come.
If you are in any doubt about partner not realizing that the §2 is a suit preference signal then lead the ¨Ace and then play small club and now partner will come back to your ¨King but now the contract only goes two off.
You can also 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
