Hand of the week commencing
Sunday 9th November 2008
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Both
Vulnerable |
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J
9 5 3 |
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A
Q 9 4 |
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K 4 |
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J 9 6
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4 3 2 |
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K
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Q 10 7 |
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10
8 6 |
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8 3 |
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8 7 |
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J 6 5 2 |
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1© |
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1NT |
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2NT |
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Partner
leads ªQ
and you cover dummy’s King plan your play.
At
trick 2 you have to try and make life easy for partner. If declarer has the
Heart King then declarer is always making a Heart trick, but if partner has it,
then you must make your intentions known early before automatically returning a
Spade at trick two. Since you have A10 sitting over dummy’s Jack you can
safely switch to the Heart Queen at trick two. Now partner knows your suit once
he has finished cashing his Spades, and there is no chance of any
misunderstanding. After you switch to the Heart queen you get a pleasant
surprise when it wins. Now switch back to Spades. He cashes his Spade and then
his Heart King before leading A Heart through dummy’s Jack into your A10.The
defence has taken the first 8 tricks with 4 from Spades and 4 from Hearts for an
excellent Match Point Score.