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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 9th August 2015
Plan your defence after your lead of the ©9
with partner following suit at trick 1 with the the the ©3
. Dealer North. Love All.
♠ A 10 7 5
♥ K Q 5
♦ Q 9 7 3
♣ Q 2
♠ K Q ♠ 9 8 6
♥ J 9 8 7 4 2 ♥ 3
♦ 8 ♦ A J 6 5 4 2
♣ A 7 6 3 ♣ 9 5 4
♠ J 4 3 2
♥ A 10 6
♦ K 10
♣ K J 10 8
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W |
N |
E |
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1¨ |
No |
1ª |
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2© |
3ª |
NO |
4ª |
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NO |
NO |
NO |
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I recently played this hand and was surprised that West could not find the winning defence .after the ©9 lead. Declarer won the first trick with the ©10 and partner followed with the 3. This 3 can only be a singleton - if partner had 63 he would have petered. If partner had A63 he would not have help up the first trick in view of partner's 2© overcall so it pointed to a singleton in all directions.
Therefore after winning the second spade trick he should have played another Heart and given his partner a ruff- partner still had one trump left.
The defence should realize 1 trump 2 Minor Suit Aces and one Heart Ruff. Perhaps West's defence was as bad as his bidding having made this dreadful overcall on this awful suit- did he really want the suit led? Were his values in this suit? All In all, West was a not a very good player J
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