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Updated 16th August 2026 |
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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 2nd June 2019
Playing IMPS where making the contract is more important than overtricks,
plan your play in 3NT after West leads AK and another Spade.
Dealer East Both Vul.
♠ Q 5
♥ J 9
♦ A J 8 6
♣ A Q 10 6 5
♠ A K 9 8 7 ♠ 4 3
♥ K 5 4 2 ♥ A 7 6
♦ 5 2 ♦ Q 10 7 4
♣ J 8 ♣ 9 7 4 3
♠ J 10 6 2
♥ Q 10 8 3
♦ K 9 3
♣ K 2
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N |
E |
S |
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NO |
NO |
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1♠ |
2♣ |
NO |
2NT |
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NO |
3NT |
NO |
NO |
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NO |
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When this was played against me my esteemed opponent was finesse mad and played King of Diamonds followed by low to the Jack . We now switched to Hearts and saw the contract go one down with the defence taking 2 Spades, 2 Hearts and the Diamond Queen.
Now lets replay the hand counting winners
After the lead of the Spades in the bag you have 2 spades, 2 Diamonds and 3 Clubs so you need to establish 2 more tricks.
Before embarking on the Diamond finesse. lets first try the clubs. If the clubs break 3:3 or the Jack of clubs falls in two rounds then the Diamond finesse is not needed, (if the clubs don’t behave then you can fall back on the Diamond finesse later in the hand)
You play three rounds of Clubs and when Jack falls claim you 9 tricks without putting your contract into jeopardy.
You make 5 clubs, 2 Diamonds and 2 Spades.
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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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