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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 5th June 2011
Playing Match Point Pairs plan your defence to 3NT
Dealer North
♠
10 7
Both Vul
♥
A
♦
J 10 7 5 4 3
♣
J 9 8 6
♠
8 3 2
♠
A K J 5 4
♥
J 10 9 8 6 4
♥
Q 7 5 2
♦
Q
♦
9 2
♣
10 5 2
♣
4 3
♠
Q 9 6
♥
K 3
♦
A K 8 6
♣
A K Q 7
W
N
E
S
NO
1ª
DBL
2ª
3¨
NO
3NT
NO
NO
NO
When
this hand was played against me by my worthy opponent Gill Stock in a local
club duplicate, after some time of thinking at trick one she worked out that I
had the rest of the strength going and with all those Diamonds looming in dummy
she cashed a second spade to hold the contract to 11 tricks. Most of the other
defenders switched passively at trick two and now declarer was able to easily
wrap up 12 tricks for an above average score. 11 tricks was worth 80% against me
J You can also view
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 alternatively watch the film
www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm