Combining chances and managing entries

[Echognome]

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Never mind how you got there, you are in 6♣ which is a pretty good slam.

 

LHO leads a diamond. How do you plan on making 12 tricks?

 

Advanced/Expert/World Class/Justin please hide your answers.

[Gerben42]

Why is Justin his own class?

 

I start by taking the Ace, then hidden

 

 

 

Jack of Clubs overtaken by Queen (assuming 2 - 1). Ruff a Diamond. Ace of Clubs (7 from hand). Ace of Hearts. 10 of Spades (you never know!) to the King. If not taken, 3 of Clubs to the 4, 9 of Spades to the Queen. If this is now taken I have to rely on the Heart finesse.

 

Only thing I can come up with this early, so probably wrong.

 

 

[Guest Jlall]

Advanced/Expert/World Class/Justin please hide your answers.

Is that sort of like "ben" as a group for forum posts? lol

[Echognome]

Why is Justin his own class?

I meant it as a joke and because I had shown Justin the hand. :angry:

[inquiry]

 

 

I have 11 sure tricks (6♣, 2♥, 1♠, 1♦ and 1♦ ruff). The 12 trick might show up in the form of a second ♠ (Ace on side), a third heart (we find the queen), or a show up squeeze (west with four/five spades and xxxx in hearts).

 

The problem is I can't afford but one ♥ pitch from dummy and no spade pitches. After I ruff a diamond, I will have too many trumps. I must manage a spade ruff to establish the potential squeeze card in the form of the "long" spade. So I need entries to lead spades twice from my hand, but I must not allow a fourth round of spades.

 

1, win ♦A

2. club ACE (I assume both follow or you could have said so in problem)

3. club Jack to queen

4. Spade to King if it wins (best if does for defense) see A, if it loses see B

 

Line A.

5. Club three to hand,

6. Spade to queen. This has to lose or I have just made it. Since spade back helps me, I assume a diamond back

7. Ruff diamond in dummy

8. ruff Spade (did east show out? Did they both follow?)

9. Cash a club one club, pitch a heart from dummy....

10. Cash last club. After west plays, is the spade good? If so claim, if not, pitch the spade

11. Cash heart ACE

12 Lead low heart (did queen show up? has anyone pitched a heart. If I have count on hand it might help here) I etiher finesse or play for the drop depending on what I know about the hand.

 

Line B.

5. Win spade return in dummy

6. ruff spade

7 ruff diamond high

8 club 3 to hand

9. Cash club, pitch heart

10. Same as "a"

 

 

 

10 Cash club,

[david_c]

Ben,

I don't understand how you know to play for a show-up squeeze if East has ♠Axx. How can you tell who has the last spade, unless you ruff it out destroying the squeeze position? I can see how a show-up squeeze might help if East has precisely ♠Ax ♥Qx in the majors, but in that case it doesn't seem to do any harm to ruff a diamond at trick three.

[inquiry]

Ben,

hi

 

 

I am not saying i AM going to play for the show up squeeze. It is an option, that depends upon my card reading and the count I have gotten on the hand. For one thing, WEST might have five spades... that will make show up more and less likely. More likely, because i will squeeze hearts out of WEST, less likely because East is more likely to be long in !Hs. I will have exact count in clubs, likely pretty accurate count in diamonds. I might play the hook or the show up. My line keeps both options open.

 

As far as ruffing the diamond, you can do that when you like of course, they are never giving you a ruff and sluff however, so there really is no rush to ruff diamond. You can always score that one.

 

[Rebound]

Here goes, I guess:

 

 

 

If, after winning the diamond A, I play club A, club J to hand, spade to the K, heart to the A and another spade up, what happens?

 

I presume a spade return. After that I can unblock the clubs and run them. Does that work?

 

 

 

[SherryP1]

I figured out how I would play the hand, that was the easy part. Now, how do i post a hidden answer? how do i look at the hidden answers others have posted?

 

I am betting that Ben has that all posted somewhere. so off i go to find it. :)

[Rebound]

Hi.

 

All you have to do to see hidden replies is to click and drag your mouse over the area to select text, as you would do if you wanted to copy text you could see there.

 

To post a hidden reply, you may click the button HIDDEN in the post editing screen then click it again at the end. Alternatively, you can just type [h] and then your text, followed by [/h] .