Phil Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Here's a hand I played last night. See if you can do better than me: [hv=pc=n&s=sqj2hjtdkt76432c5&n=sa87hq5da85cakj96&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=3dp5ddppp]266|200[/hv] The opening lead is the ♠. Plan the play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 I'd win in dummy and lead a diamond to the king. If both follow I am home. If RHO shows out then I'll play for 10xx of clubs with LHO. It's conceivable that people would double with Kxxx AKxxx - 10xxx, but queen-fourth of clubs must be more likely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 I take it it's a small spade led, not the ♠K :D My first thought is: take ♠A to avoid any ruff shenanigans, then cash the ♦AK, then the ♣AK throwing a heart. If the diamonds split, the defence can cash their ♠K and a heart, but that's it. So the problem must come in the form of a 3-0 diamond break... which means you need to get rid of the 2nd heart loser fast. Win the ♠A, play to ♦K, cash ♣A and ruff one, cross to DA, cash CK and pray looks about the only shot due to lack of entries. Must still be missing something? Taking the ♠ finesse on the first trick is asking for disaster. Edit: I see the cross-post. Seems there are different ways one could guess clubs and playing for 10xx in west isn't a bad idea by any means. ahydra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 I'd win in dummy and lead a diamond to the king. If both follow I am home. If RHO shows out then I'll play for 10xx of clubs with LHO. It's conceivable that people would double with Kxxx AKxxx - 10xxx, but queen-fourth of clubs must be more likely. Right! When RHO shows out on the diamond (not unlikely as there's about 12 non-diamond points out there), his shape is very likely 5404 or 4504. At the table I confess I played ♣A, ♣ too quickly and I could not recover. The lead to the K first works as a nice discovery play. It creates the urgency of setting up clubs and also points to the neccessity of Txx on your left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Good hand. I always get these right...... the next day :blink: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statto Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 Win with ♠A, take 2 rounds of trumps finishing in hand. If trumps are 2-1 it is easy. If not, we can now try the ♣ finesse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 Win with ♠A, take 2 rounds of trumps finishing in hand. If trumps are 2-1 it is easy. If not, we can now try the ♣ finesse.The club finesse into the doubler seems like a much lower % than the smother play through them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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