Hand of the week commencing
Sunday 7th October 2007
You lead ¨A and partner plays 3 plan your defense.
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Dealer |
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10 7 6 2
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EW
Vulnerable |
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A
10 |
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Q J 10 |
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3 2 |
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N |
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A
4
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8 |
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7 4 |
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E |
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5 2 |
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8 7 5 2 |
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4 3 |
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8 5 |
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K 10 6 |
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Q J 5 3 |
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J 9 |
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6 |
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J
7 4 |
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1ª
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3ª |
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The
auction suggests that South is very minimum as he passed his partner’s
invitational response. You can see three winning Diamonds in dummy which might
take care of any losers declarer may have. Therefore ACTIVE DEFENSE is now
needed. You must switch to a low club and partner will cash two clubs and play a
third one for you to win and now you will obtain 5 defensive tricks – 3 clubs
and 2 aces. (Cashing the Spade Ace first, before switching, also works, but
quite frankly this is time wasting as it leads nowhere). If you opted for
passive defense and did not find the switch declarer will clear chuck all his
club losers on dummy’s Diamonds.