Hand of the week commencing
Sunday 3rd August 2008
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North
Dealer |
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Q
10 7 6 3 2
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Neither
Vulnerable |
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K
6 2 |
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¨ |
9 |
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A
Q 9 |
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N |
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ª |
A
9 5
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K
J 8 |
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© |
10
8 4 3 |
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W
E |
© |
Q
9 6 5 |
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8
4 3 2 |
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K
Q J 10 |
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10
7 |
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J
2 |
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S |
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Lead
§7 |
ª |
4 |
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© |
A
J |
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7 6 5 |
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K
8 6 5 4 3 |
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W |
N |
E |
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1ª |
NO |
2§ |
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NO |
2ª |
NO |
3¨ |
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NO |
3© |
NO |
3NT |
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NO |
4§ |
NO |
6§ |
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NO |
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Having
stumbled into this ambitious contract plan your play.
Initially
you have 6 winners – 2 Hearts, 1 Diamonds and 3 top clubs.
After
trick one with everybody following you know you can count on
3 more trump winners. The
other two tricks will come from dummy’s Spade suit and as long as the Spades
are no worse than 42 then you can set up two tricks there. This brings the total
to 12.
To
set up the Spades you will need to leave entries to dummy. The entries are two
top clubs and the King of Hearts. Therefore you need to delay playing a second
trump. Win the first trick in hand and immediately play a Spade . The defence
will probably play another trump which you win in dummy. Good news when the
trumps break 22. You ruff a Spade and return to dummy with King of Hearts in
order to ruff another Spade. When the suit breaks 33 you can now claim the rest
by way of 6 natural trumps, 1 Diamond, 2 Hearts and 3 established Spades.