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Updated 16th August 2026 |
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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 2nd August 2015
Against 3NT you duly lead your partner's suit and declarer wins
with the Ace and plays Ace and Queen of Clubs plan your defence
Dealer North. None Vul.
♠ K J 9 5
♥ Q 9 4
♦ A J 9 5 4
♣ 7
♠ 7 2 ♠ Q 10 8 6 4
♥ A J 7 5 ♥ K 10 8 6
♦ 10 8 2 ♦ 7 6 3
♣ K 8 5 3 ♣ 6
♠ A 3
♥ 3 2
♦ K Q
♣ A Q J 10 9 4 2
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1♣ |
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1 ♦ |
1♠ |
3NT |
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NO |
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Have you listened to the auction?
Declarer's bidding suggests he has long Minor suit in his hand and it’s a source of tricks. Presumably he has 7 clubs in the closed hand and the suit will now produce 6 tricks together with the first spades and the second spades in dummy plus the Diamond Ace in dummy this brings the total to 9 tricks.
Unless you wake up and are prepared to SWITCH this contract will make. At trick 4 there is no point in playing another spade or Diamond (you see the goodies in dummy) so a Heart is called for and to defeat the contract you are going to have to assume partner has two vital cards or the contract is not going off. What are the two cards you have to assume partner has? He has to have both the King and Jack of Hearts and you need to create an immediate finesse position against dummy. and Play Ace and Jack of Hearts. This will now mean you will get your five defensive tricks to break the contract- 4 Hearts and 1 Club.
( Notice how declarer put the pressure on you at trick 3 to find this vital switch but you were up to it - maybe your partner should not have made such a vile worthless overcall !!)
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You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. To view this programme you will need to download htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup |
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alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
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