Walddk Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 [hv=d=e&v=e&n=sakj32ha8dq10cj983&s=sq94h1042dak52cak5]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv]From a Cayne-match the other day. You have bid to 6NT, the inferior slam (6♠ is not cold but much better). RHO opened a Multi 2♦, weak with one major, 6+ cards at this vulnerability. West leads ♥9. Say you duck and East wins the jack. He continues hearts to dummy's ace, LHO following with a small card. Let's pretend you cash four rounds of spades, discarding the last heart from your hand. RHO follows to two rounds and pitches two hearts; LHO lets go a diamond. How do you proceed? What do you think is the best line for your 12th trick? Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Deep Finesse would definitely make this. We can- Squeeze LHO in the minors (cash the last spade discarding a club), making if he is 3244 or 3253 with the CQ, or if the CQ is doubleton- Squeeze RHO in hearts and clubs, but not any more (I think we needed to take 3 rounds of diamonds earlier and not discard the heart)- Take the diamond finesse. But if we were going to do that we also want to cash the AK of clubs earlier in case the queen is doubleton.- Squeeze RHO in hearts and diamonds (discard a club on the 4th spade then AK of clubs, diamond to the Queen, fifth spade). This seems a poor line, it needs RHO to be exactly 2641 So I am going back slightly and will cash the AK of clubs before the third spade. If RHO discards, play for a red suit squeeze. Assuming everyone follows and the Queen doesn't drop, now run the spades. On the fourth spade discard a club from hand. On the fifth spade play for LHO to be squeezed in the minors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrei Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 how about keeping 10♥ and discarding a small ♣ on the 4th ♠, cashing AK♣, crossing to Q♦ and playing the last ♠ from dummy. this will make anytime W has Q♣ or E has it doubleton or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 how about keeping 10♥ and discarding a small ♣ on the 4th ♠, cashing AK♣, crossing to Q♦ and playing the last ♠ from dummy. this will make anytime W has Q♣ or E has it doubleton or less. Sounds like a plan, but will fail when East has ♣Q guarded. I don't know who is more likely to have ♣Q; after all East opened his weak 2 vulnerable against not, so I think it's touch and go. The way I played it I think West's diamond discard on the 4th spade indicated how the minors were distributed. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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