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JEC Jan3 Board 15


mgoetze

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Are the opps playing standard or UDCA? Regardless, I might have ducked the first to limit their communication options (more out of general principle than anything specific to this hand).

 

Anyway, having won the first , I would guess to play for a general cross ruff hoping to score the small trumps in my hand with ruffs. Accordingly, advance the T and see what they do next.

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I'd duck the first spade. What do they do on this trick, and what happens next? And what signals do they play?

 

A pure crossruff is problematic, because they can return a trump each time they're in, probably holding me to five or six trumps, one spade and one diamond. Instead, I may have to set up one hand or the other.

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I am not sure you can make it against the actual distribution, but I am 100% confident you went wrong a few tricks later when you started pulling trump. At that point, you had a likely cross-ruff available (just needing the T onside, or a lucky heart distribution), and instead you played East for a 17 count (AK AK K). The cross-ruff would have lead to down one against the actual distribution (instead of -2).
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