jillybean Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 [hv=d=e&v=e&n=sq75hakq98d42ct52&s=sakt82h654d973ca8]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] West North East South - - 1♣ 1♠ Pass 4♠ Dbl Pass Pass Pass C3 C2 CK How will you play this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goobers Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 I'm really not smart enough to do anything but win, draw trump (A, Q, back to K) and then try running hearts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 If that line of play worked, I don't think this hand would be posted as a problem, since you have 11 top tricks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted July 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Correct, it didnt work. [hv=d=e&v=e&n=sq75hakq98d42ct52&s=sakt82h654d973ca8]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] West North East South - - 1♣ 1♠ Pass 4♠ Dbl Pass Pass Pass C3 C2 CK CA SA S4 S5 S3 S2 S6 SQ SJ C5 C4 C8 C9 S9 S7 C6 SK H4 H2 HA HJ HK DT H5 H3 So far so good but here I had to drop my losing ♦ and the ♣,I played another ♥ instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Looks like the finesse was marked after RHO showed up with the stiff heart jack. So ruff a club back to hand and take the finesse. Playing a club at trick 4 seems very odd to me. What was the reason for playing it? It may be best to duck the first trick to guarantee an entry back to hand. This gives up on an overtrick quite often, but let's you make the contract when RHO has the stiff jack or 10 of hearts. Probably not worth it in the long run unless you are playing rubber bridge. Another possibility is trying to ruff a diamond in dummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vuroth Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 I see 2 paths - either attack diamonds right away, trying to ruff one on the board, or play hearts for 3/2 and throw a diamond on the hearts (4/1 heart split won't work, unless you keep a trump entry to the board). Given the double, I'll guess RHO has 4 spades. Ace of clubs, ace of spades, low to the queen, prepared to finesse the jack of spades in righty if he's got 4. Then, I simply hope hearts are 3/2. V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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