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Answer to Hand of the week,
Sunday 6th March 2011
Plan your play in 6♣ with the ♣ 2 lead
Dealer South ♠ 6 Both Vul
♥ A 9 4 3 2
♦ A Q 10 6
♣ A Q 8 ♠ ♠
♥
♥
♦
♦ ♣ 2 ♣ ♠ A K J 4
♥ 10
♦ 7 4 3 ♣ K J 9 7 6
W
N
E
S
1§
NO
1©
NO
1ª
NO
2♦
NO
3§
NO
4NT
NO
5©
NO
6§
The trump lead suggests that West has the
spades sitting over you so taking any sort of spade finesse would be futile. An
initial count of your winners comes to 9 by way of 5 trumps, 1 Diamond 1 Heart
and 2 Spades, Hopefully, you will be able to establish
2 more tricks from Diamonds by way of a finesse and therefore you will need to
take one spade ruff in dummy before clearing all the trumps. After winning the
first trick take a deep finesse in Diamonds inserting dummy’s 10 which brings
the King from East who plays a second trump, revealing the 4:1 trump division.
Take your spade ruff now. And play Ace and another heart to get back to hand in
order to draw the last trumps. Cash the winning Spade and then cash out the
Diamonds again glad to see this suit breaking 3:3. You have made your contract from 5 Clubs,
3 Diamonds, 1 Heart 2 Spades and 1 spade ruff. 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