Fluffy Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 ♠1094♥KJ4♦AKJ♣AK105 ♠AK85♥A104♦1054♣QJ3 after a strong club auction where no player shows a suit, you end up in 6NT by south all vul. LHO leads ♣8, how do you play the play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWO4BRIDGE Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Either need BOTH red suit finesses working... orONE red suit and 3 tricks from the ♠ suit ( split honors or 3-3 split or if Q J bare , then you wouldn't need a red suit finesse ). I'd go to work on the ♠ suit first . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilKing Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Defence is hard. Make it harder - cash four rounds of clubs. This is a great option when they do not know our shape. We force a total of two discards, which may be directly fatal, or at least provide clues as to what to do next. One attractive scenario is that West throws a spade from Jxx. Now we play three rounds of spades endplaying East, making the contract without any red finesses. Anyway, we don't have to see round corners to cash some winners - this should be ingrained as our default play when entries permit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 east pitches 2 low hearts on the hearts, upside down if it matters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I would start with clubs and then try the double finesse in Spade. If they return a diamond, I will finish spades. If I get no more information in other suits, I would cash the King of D and finesse Hearts through East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 After cashing the clubs, I'll take a spade finesse. If that loses and they play a diamond back, I'll play spades from the top. If I have only two spade tricks, I take the diamond finesse and then guess the hearts once I know the layout of all three other suits. If I have three spade tricks, I'll see some more discards, which may tell me which finesse to take, or there may be a showup squeeze. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted April 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 RHO had ♠xxx♥Qxxxx♦xxx♣xx My double spade finese failed badly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowerline Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 RHO had ♠xxx♥Qxxxx♦xxx♣xx My double spade finese failed badly. That's no problem unless you repeat the finesse...You start by cashing the clubs (discarding a diamond in hand). Now you run the ♠10 which looses. Then you cash the spades. Because spades are 3-3 you don't need the diamond finesse (discarding the ♦J on the last spade). Given the count in the black suits, you will play ♥K followed by a ♥ to the ten. Steven 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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