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Hand of the week, week commencing,
Sunday 8th
May 2016
Playing Match Point Pairs – plan your play in 6 ♦
Dealer North. None Vul.
♠ 9 3 2
♥ A K 8 7 6
♦ K Q 8
♣ A 6
♠ K 7 6 ♠ Q J 8 5 4
♥ 10 5 4 ♥ J 9 3 2
♦ J 5 ♦ 7 3
♣ Q 8 5 4 3 ♣ 9 7
♠ A 10
♥ Q
♦ A 10 9 6 4 2
♣ K J 10 2
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W |
N |
E |
S |
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1© |
NO |
2¨ |
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NO |
2NT |
NO |
3§ |
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NO |
3¨ |
NO |
4NT |
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NO |
5© |
NO |
6¨ |
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NO |
NO |
NO |
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Our hand this week is very easy provided you take advantage of the favourable lie of the cards in two suits and can count two suits.
Firstly draw trumps pleased to see that the suit breaks 2:2.
Next unblock the Heart queen .
Now enter dummy with the Club Ace to get to the remaining Hearts.
Play off one two top Hearts pleased to see everybody follow- this now means that the suit is breaking 4:3 (Odd suits break well!!). Ruff a fourth Heart and now your last Heart in dummy is established.
Because of the favourable lie of the trump suit you now have the Diamond Queen to get back to dummy to enjoy the established Heart.
You have made 6 trumps, 1 Spade, 3 Hearts 1 established Heart and finally 2 clubs.
(NB Had the trumps not broken so favourably then you might have had to fall back on the Club finesse for an overtrick).
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You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup |
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alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm
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