Gerben42 Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 This hand came up in the Governor's Cup in Jakarta.[hv=d=e&v=e&n=s63h942dak742ck73&s=saqjt94hakt73dct4]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] You reach 4♠ without intervention (yes 4♥ would have been easier), and receive the lead of ♦3 (3rd and 5th). You cash 2 top Diamonds discarding ♣ and play a small ♠ to the 9, West discarding a ♣! Take it from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 Gee whiz am I not suppose to ruff a D at trick three and bang down the ace of h at trick 4. if then all small I bang down the K of H ? It seems in the books with long trumps the experts all take a ruff early, oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 duck a Heart now. IF East has 3♦ and ♣A he cannot shortnen me more than once. Losing 1♠,1♥,1♣ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfgauss Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 This hand came up in the Governor's Cup in Jakarta. Dealer: East Vul: E/W Scoring: IMP ♠ 63 ♥ 942 ♦ AK742 ♣ K73 ♠ AQJT94 ♥ AKT73 ♦ [space] ♣ T4 You reach 4♠ without intervention (yes 4♥ would have been easier), and receive the lead of ♦3 (3rd and 5th). You cash 2 top Diamonds discarding ♣ and play a small ♠ to the 9, West discarding a ♣! Take it from here.I'm fairly certain I can't make if hearts are 4-1. If hearts are 3-2 (one way or the other) there's the issue of either letting East score 2 low ruffs and the spade K (in addition to their heart trick) or driving out some spades early but then losing control, but there are solutions in certain cases: I'll assume diamonds are 5-3 (i.e. 5 with West). I need something like 3 hearts with East or the combination of 3 hearts and the club Ace with West. (Or ♥QJ to fall doubleton of course.) I cash ♥AK and play a third heart. Say West wins. Then I need ♣A with West. If West returns a low club, I rise with the K, tossing a heart, and I lose just 2 hearts and a spade. If West returns ♣A, I can duck (tossing a heart) and if another club is returned, I again lose only 3 tricks. If a diamond is returned, this strips East's last diamond, I ruff, and play spades until East wins and must return a spade (then my heart wins) or a club (then my club K wins). If West returns a diamond, then this similarly strips East of his last diamond. I ruff with the ♠10 to prepare to overruff my ♠4 with dummy's ♠6. I play a heart pitching a club and East must ruff or it's easy. He returns a club or it's easy (drive out spades) and now I ruff with the ♠J and exit my last heart, pitching dummy's last club (if he doesn't ruff this, I exit spade 4 for the endplay in spades). He ruffs and must return a club... which I then ruff low in hand and with the 6 on the board to set up my trump coup, on the board at trick 12. :) If East has the third heart, everything works the same way, but this time I don't care who has ♣A. Nice problem! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfgauss Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 duck a Heart now. IF East has 3♦ and ♣A he cannot shortnen me more than once. Losing 1♠,1♥,1♣If West can rise with ♥Q or ♥J, this line fails. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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