jahol Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Actually, I was not sure whether to put this problem into beginner/intermediate section or in advanced/expert class section... thus I put it here... :-) You opened 1NT and in a couple of seconds are in 4 spades (after transfer) with KJ1053---4---104---A9854AQ6---762---AKJ---QJ103 The first lead is HA, then HK. How do you play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) Ruff in dummy. Cash ♠J and ♠A. If trumps are 4-1, run ♣Q. If that loses and they play another heart, ruff in dummy. Play more clubs. If they ruff and play another heart, ruff in dummy and cross to DA to draw trumps. If they hold off the ruff until the fourth round, and then play their last a trump, I'm winning it in dummy, which is high. I go down if someone is 4-6 in the majors, because they can discard all their diamonds before ruffing the club. I think you put this in the right forum. Edited December 10, 2009 by gnasher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahol Posted December 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 This is good plan. My partner ruffed the second round of hearts, cashed two high spades in his hand and played CQ for finesse, which failed. The defence played third round of hearts and my partner refused to ruff trying to prevent shortening trumphs in the dummy (he discarded diamond from dummy). Now, he ruffed fourth round of hearts with the last trumph in his hand, but when he tried to reach dummy to cash remaining trumphs, club was ruffed for one down. Still, I think, I have even better plan. I would ruff the second round of hearts, would play club ace, cross to hand with diamond ace, ruff the third round of hearts myself(!), cross back to hand with diamond king, ruff diamond high and play club. By that time, I have completely eliminated red colours. I still have two high trumphs and three clubs in dummy and two high and one small trumph and two clubs in my hand. If the opponent plays anything red immediately, I simply ruff one more time in dummy, having two diamonds, one club, four ruffs in dummy and three original trumph tricks. If the opponents play another club to ruff and then something red, the effect is similar. I the opponents play trumph after club ruff, I can cash trumphs and have my last club high (provided that trumphs were not distributed 5-0 in their hands). Finally, if the opponents refuse ruffing the third round of clubs and play trumph after scoring original club trick, I can play clubs myself. This way, I can make the contract even in case, there is singleton trumph in the hand with singleton club. I need to have diamonds not worse than 6-2 (and even in such case, I have many additional chances to make the contract). As the cards are distributed, I may get small bonus playing like that, finishing with twelve tricks. The board: [hv=d=w&v=b&n=s8hakj95d8762c762&w=saq6h762dakjcqj103&e=skj1053h4d104ca9854&s=s9742hq1083dq953ck]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Yes, that is a nice line. It's not quite cold: you go down when somebody is 1=3 in the minors, unless ♣K is singleton - they get a diamond ruff, ♣K and a club ruff. I go down when somebody is 4=6 in the majors and ♣K is offside. I'm not sure which line is better, but either would be unlucky to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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