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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 29th March 2020
The opponents win the first two tricks with two Aces
followed by a second Diamond plan your play
Love All Dealer South
Board 1. Dealer North. None Vul.
♠ Q 9 6 3
♥ J 10 4 2
♦ J 7 4 3
♣ 5
♠ 8 5 ♠ J
♥ 3 ♥ Q 7 6 5
♦ A 9 8 6 2 ♦ 10 5
♣ J 10 8 6 3 ♣ A K Q 7 4 2
♠ A K 10 7 4 2
♥ A K 9 8
♦ K Q
♣ 9
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W |
N |
E |
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1ª |
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2NT |
4ª |
5§ |
NO |
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NO |
5ª |
NO |
NO |
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NO |
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The opponents take the first two tricks followed by a third Diamond which you have to win in hand.
You take stock and have SIX certain spade tricks (you can cope with 3:0 break) 1 Diamond now and 2 Hearts. Therefore, you need one more and it looks like it will have to come from Hearts. Do you play for West to have the Queen or East?
Well first draw trumps. And then cash a top Heart to see if there is a singleton Queen floating about. It is not to be BUT now you know the complete distribution
West overcalled with 2NT Unusual No Trump and is known to be 55 in the minors. He has followed to two rounds of Spades and now one Heart so his other ten cards must all be in Clubs and Diamonds. Therefore, that Heart was a singleton and now you know for sure that the Heart finesse will work. So enter dummy and play the Heart Jack finessing East for the missing Queen.
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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.videoes.html or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) |
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alternatively watch the film of the hand being played out by going to www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
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