Hand of the week

Hand of the week Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 6th February 2022

Plan your play in 7♥ after the ♠3 lead.

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Dealer: South Vuln: All

♠	10
♥	A K J 8 6
♦	K 9 8 7 6
♣	9 8

♠	K 9 6 4 3
♥	9 3
♦	J
♣	Q J 10 5 3

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	Q J 7 5
♥	10
♦	Q 5 4 3
♣	K 7 6 2

♠	A 8 2
♥	Q 7 5 4 2
♦	A 10 2
♣	A 4

W	N	E	S
			1♥
2♥	4NT	5♠	6♥
Pass	Pass	6♠	7♥
End

2♥ is Michaels showing 55 or better shape now showing Spades and an unspecified Minor.

After a somewhat crazy auction my partner ended up in 7♥ Could she make it?

In order to make it you will have to play the Diamond suit for no winners. Is there any possibility to do this?

From the bidding West's likely 5 card Minor is Clubs so your only hope now is to play West for the singleton Diamond honour.

With this in mind, draw two rounds of trumps pleased to see them breaking and pleased to see that West had the doubleton trump. Now lets hope his Diamond singleton is an honour.

Play low spade to the King, as West produces the Jack (YES) and then finesse East on the way back for the missing Queen. Now play the Ace. Enter dummy by ruffing a Spade and play a Diamond ruffing East's Queen. Now re-enter dummy with another Spade ruff and ruff a Diamond. Now the Diamond is established and you can re-enter dummy with a Spade ruff and play that established Diamond dropping the losing Club

You now get home making 3 trumps, 1 Spade, 2 Spade ruffs. 3 Diamonds, 1 established Diamond, 1 Diamond ruffed 1 top Club and 1 Club ruffed.

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