Make 6H at IMP

[Mbodell]

You are red versus white at IMP and have a keycard auction, showing all the keys and Q, to 6♥ S.

 

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Opening lead is a heart, plan the play:

[Zelandakh]

Dummy reversal seems to work. Something like ♥9, ♠A, ♠ ruff, ♣K, ♠ ruff, ♣A throwing a ♦, ♣ ruff, ♠ ruff with A, ♥J, ♠ ruff. Hmmm, maybe better to cross back with a trump than a club ruff the first time...whatever.

[bd71]

I'm assuming both followed to the first round heart.

 

Agree with dummy reversal, which I think by itself is sufficient the vast majority of the time the ♠K drops by the 4th round, establishing the ♠Q as our 12th trick (11 are in the bag...1 ♠, 4 ♥ in North, 3 ♥ ruffs in South, 1 ♦, and 2 ♣). But on the off-chance spades don't cooperate, I think we need to run the ♦9 early (I'll do it at Trick 2) to possibly set up either a ♦ finesse against East or a ♠/♦ squeeze for the 12th trick.

[gszes]

trick 1 win in dummy

trick 2 spade A

trick 3 ruff spade low (odds of rho having 6 spades to KJ and a dia honor and not bidding

2 or 3 spades at favorable kind of slim)

trick 4 small trump to dummy

trick 5 ruff a spade high. we now know if spades will come home even if it takes a ruffing finesse

against rho when lho held Jx spades and 2 or less trumps. if trump 22* if trumps 31**

assuming spades come home

trick 6 low club to king

trick 7 ruff or ruffing finesse (if rho ducks ruff trick 8 then continue as below except skip trick 10)

trick 8 ruff a club

trick 9 pull last trump

trick 10 spade

trick 11 claim 2 of last 3

 

* sigh nothing is ever easy so here we are with little hope and less entries

assuming someone didnt have the QJ doubleton of clubs we need 2 diamonds

so we are hoping for 33 diamonds or if 42 rho has KQ. The only thing working for us

is the opps cannot return a spade when they get in or the hand is over.

 

trick 6 low club to K

trick 7 dia toward the J. if it holds the hand is over so

if LHO wins we know rho didnt begin life with KQxx so we need 33 diamonds and the play

proceeds from however lho defends.

 

If they return a club

trick 8 win A (pitch a dia)

trick 9 dia A

trick 10 ruff a dia

trick 11 ruff a spade

trick 12 dia pitch spade

trick 13 ruff a club

 

If they return a dia

trick 8 win as cheaply as possible

trick 9 knock out remaining top dia

claim via dia spade ruff club ruff and club A

 

** Oh great 31 trumps now we have even less options but we still have the

advantage of neither opp being able to play a spade when they win a trick.

 

Our only chances are: (my brain hurts cant think of any other possibilities)

 

lho rho

K(any 4 spades) x KQ (any 5 clubs) 2(non K spades) xxx Txxx (any 4 clubs).

K(any 4 spades) xxx KQ (any 3 clubs) 2(non K spades) x Txxx (any 6 clubs).

K(any 4 spades) xxx xxx (any 2 clubs) 2(non K spades) x KQx (any 7 clubs).

K(any 4 spades) x xxx (any 4 clubs) 2(non K spades) xxx KQx (any 5 clubs).

 

We know who has the 3 card trump suit

 

We cannot cater to both holdings so it seems we must go for the holding

where rho has KQx in diamonds since that seems way more likely than

lho holding KQ tight.

 

the LOP are very similar

trick 6 club to K

trick 7 dia toward AJ if it holds the hand is over

trick 8 dia A

trick 9 club A (pitch a dia)

trick 10 ruff a club

trick 11 ruff a spade

trick 12 claim 1 more

 

so we assume rho inserts a dia honor and we duck trick 7

 

if rho returns a heart

trick 8 win in dummy

trick 9 another heart(pitch club)

trick 10 dia toward AJ

trick 11 dia

trick 12 dia

trick 12 club A

 

if rho returns a dia

trick 8 win the J

trick 9 heart to dummy

trick 10 heart (pitch club)

trick 11 dia to A

trick 12 dia

trick 13 club A

 

if rho returns a club

trick 8 win the A pitch a spade

trick 9 heart to dummy

trick 10 heart (pitch club)

trick 11 dia toward AJ

trick 12 another top dia

trick 13 take last dia

 

that was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much work