Can you make 5D?

[Walddk]

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South: 5D

Lead: SQ[/hv]

 

 

You have arrived in 5♦ after West has shown both black suits (doesn't really matter, since this is a double dummy problem). What matters though is if the contract can be made on best defence.

 

West leads ♠Q.

 

Roland

[42]

What about this way:

1. ♠Q K 2 4

2. ♠A 3 ♣6 ♠6

3. ♠9 5 ♦4 ♠7

4. ♦5 Q K 2

5. ♥A 6 2 K

6. ♥3 J 4 ♠8

7. if a ♦ comes back: win in dummy and play ♣K, exit with a ♥,

if a ♥ is played declarer scores the 9. Even if W waits and takes the 3. ♥trick and plays a trump declarer loses only 2 tricks, a ♥ and a ♦.

 

Caren

[Walddk]

Not good enough Caren. Try again.

 

Roland

[luke warm]

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South: 5D

Lead: SQ[/hv]

take ♠A, play ♦K,J, then ♠K and ruff a ♠... ♦A, ♣A and exit a ♦, leaving

 

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South: 5D

Lead: SQ[/hv]

if he leads a ♥ honor, duck... you have 4 of the last 5

[sceptic]

1/. Qs As 2s 4s

2/. Ks 3s 6c 6s

3/. Kd 2d 4d qd

4/. Jd 3d 5d 5c

5/. 2c Jc ac 7c

6/. 2h kh Ah 7h

7/. kc depends if they play a D but I think you can lose 2 hearts and make that way

[luke warm]

say he trumps the ♣K... now what?

[sceptic]

ok not so easy as it looks :D, I will try again

[david_c]

1/. Qs As 2s 4s

2/. Ks 3s 6c 6s

3/. Kd 2d 4d qd

4/. Jd 3d 5d 5c

5/. 2c Jc ac 7c

6/. 2h kh Ah 7h

7/. kc depends if they play a D but I think you can lose 2 hearts and make that way

I think this must be almost right. Seems that you need to leave some entries in dummy when you play the ♣K. So take the ace of clubs at trick three, then cross to the king of diamonds and lead the ♣K now, while the ♥A and ♦J are still in dummy. If East ruffs the ♣K, you aim to draw trumps and force a heart trick by leading through East. If East doesn't ruff you need a trump reduction, and it seems there are enough entries left.

 

Edit: Actually, it seems you only need one more entry at that stage - the one that lets you lead hearts through East. So let's try this: win ♠A, ♠K pitching a club, ♣A, ♦K, ♦J, and now lead ♣K. If East ruffs, then draw trumps, cross to ♥A and lead a small heart from dummy. If East lets the ♣K hold, then pitch a heart, ruff a club, cross to ♥A and ruff another club, then exit with a heart in order to make your two last trumps.

[pclayton]

this is really a maddening hand.....

 

I'll keep working on it. I DO know that pitching the A♣ on the A♠ is right though. :lol:

[Flame]

A spade, A club, K diamond, K spade discarding the club, now K club, if east ruff, i overruff, take out the diamonds (J ruff and another) and play A heart and another heart, taking 6 diamonds, 1 club 2 hearts and 2 spades =11 tricks. If east doesnt ruff i am going to end play him in trump , ruffing 1 spade and 2 clubs, and then playing the heart to him.

[jjsb]

"I'll keep working on it. I DO know that pitching the A♣ on the A♠ is right though"

 

i dotn think it's an obligation but play is much more fun if u do that i agree :lol: nice hand thougth

 

regards

syl

[sceptic]

how about

 

As wins

Ks next discard AC

Kd see Q drop

9s trump in hand

low to AH see K drop

play 10 H lose to J or Q

 

if LHO leads clubwin the K and play 3H and that makes ur 9H good when LHO wins with the Qor JH, you can get back to hand with small D to J and play clubs tp win 11 tricks

if LHO leads low heart it is made if LHO leads high heart safe if LHO leads D that is safe as you can take both D tricks and back to dummy with KC and play 3 H forcing your 9 to be the winner

[david_c]

how about

 

As wins

Ks next discard AC

Kd see Q drop

9s trump in hand

low to AH see K drop

play 10 H lose to J or Q

 

if LHO leads clubwin the K and play 3H and that makes ur 9H good when LHO wins with the Qor JH, you can get back to hand with small D to J and play clubs tp win 11 tricks

if LHO leads low heart it is made if LHO leads high heart safe if LHO leads D that is safe as you can take both D tricks and back to dummy with KC and play 3 H forcing your 9 to be the winner

Playing it this way, you are stuck in hand after winning the ♥9 (East will remove an entry from dummy whenever he gets in with a high heart.)

 

It seems the point of this hand is that you can either set up a heart trick or reduce your trump length, but you don't have time to do both. So you need to force East to decide which of these things he is going to defend against, which you can do by playing a winning club through him, threatening to overruff. Pitching the ♣A looks good, but it doesn't seem that you can survive it.

[Walddk]

I haven't seen the correct solution yet. Keep trying guys! :rolleyes:

 

Roland

[ArcLight]

This involves what I think is called a Trump Coup.

The declarer must get rid of excess trumps to reach parity with East.

 

1) Win the ♠ Ace.

2) Spade K, discarding the ♣6 from hand.

3) ruff the third ♠.

4) Cash the ♣ A.

5) lead a low ♦ to the K

6) ruff a ♣

7) lead a low ♦ to the J

8) ruff a ♣

We now have A9 of trumps sitting over Easts 10 8.

East has taken 2 heart discards, and is down to ♥QJ8.

9) Cash the Ace of hearts, putting us in Dummy.

 

East has:

♥QJ

♦T 8

 

Declarer holds

♥ 9 5

♦ A 9

 

10) Play the ♣King, discarding a heart.

 

East can ruff, and we can overruff, draw trumps, and give up 2 hearts, claiming.

Or East can duck and discard a heart, resulting in:

 

East has:

♥Q

♦T 8

 

Declarer holds

♥ 9

♦ A 9

 

Then throw in East with a heart and claim with an eventually over ruff, and trump pull.

[Winstonm]

1. A of spades

2. K of spades. pitching a low club

3 Ruff a spade.

4. A of clubs

5. Cross to K of diamonds

6. Low club, RHO pitches a heart, we ruff

7. Diamond to Jack

8. K of clubs - RHO is must ruff else end up endplayed - we overuff

9. Draw the last trump, pitching a club from dummy

10. Cross to Ace of hearts

11. Lead 10 of hearts, endplaying RHO to lead from J8 into our 95

 

WinstonM :rolleyes:

[Winstonm]

Nice hand, Roland. Elements of a 1-suited squeeze combined with a trump coup.

 

WinstonM

[jjsb]

i didnt have time to see if someone find the good solution but let's have fun in my answer :rolleyes: if u notice something u already read ... it's pure coincidence ... of course (thanks Victor Mollo for making me so happy reading u ...)

 

the robber was completely unfair as the hideous hog was playing with papa the greek , against the rabbit and karapet the armenian ... still there was some kibbitz thougth u coudnt expect to see a close robber ... and the beginning was that so , karapet got squeeze 2 times in a row and led a wrong ace against a slam . hopefully the rabbit find ways to play 2 partial in 2S and 2H was cold for game but he still was happy to do his contract just made so the robber was closer after all .

after a couple of more deals here come this hand

 

the rabbit was holding

 

4

9542

A97654

A6

 

the auction bring the table to a 5D contract the more karapet was bidding his hand the more he was depressed knowing the rabbit hardly find ways to 11 tricks

 

in any case the lead by the hog was Q of S and the dummy comes as show

 

AK9

A103

KJ

K8432

 

the rabbit after having some look at the dummy suddenly realize he didnt know where he put the key of his house and was really thinking about it while he was calling A and then K of S , he had nothing to throw but still .. on his K of S he throw the 6 of C when suddenly some Kibbitz react ... the rabbit looks at what he played and he sees the Ace of C instead of the 6 ... the hog that we didnt hear for now quite some time (it was unusual... ) was surprisingly kind to the rabbit giving him permission to took back his card "dear friend i would never take advantages of something like that pls do what u want" , on the other side , papa of course was completely unhappy , he knew the rules and knew the card is played , everyone quite agree on that and the rabbit thougth he wasnt a good player would certainly not accept that offer as he also know the rules . after that the play should continue and the the rabbit decided he should try to ruff as many things as possible so at trick 3 he decided to ruff a S go back in hand with the K of C (thougth the rabbit was not genious he was quite happy enough to note he hopefully dont discard the 6 of C at that point) , ruff a C (as papa first hesitate on what to do and decide to play small H) go back in dummy again with a D to the K when he notice the Q, ruff another C (papa took some time again to throw a H) and play a H , at that time someone come to him with the key of his house he thougth he lost a while ago he was so relieved and was kinda forgeting the play so call a small H , papa playing low immediately . "are u sure u're playing low my DEAR friend rabbit u already pay enough with ur previous mistake , maybe it's enough ..." hog said . but the rabbit was just too much happy the key was back and didnt mind much the play , while papa was looking at the hog with an angry face , in any case it was played the rules said...in hand now whatever black card the hog migth play now , the rabbit already got 7 tricks ,and the ace of H and 3 more trumps will just work enough to reach 11 ...

 

regards

syl

 

PS : english not good enough to have more fun , hope it's readable thougth , i repeat , it's a nice hand , i dotn think throwing the Ace of C was an obligation thougth u can find other way i believe

[david_c]

Sadly, I think the rabbit has a heart mixed in with his diamonds here. If the play went as described he's only got two trumps left at the end, not three, so he's only making ten tricks.

 

Roland, it may not be what you had in mind, but there is nothing wrong with Flame's solution, is there?

[jjsb]

pretty sure the rabbit will score 3 trumps tricks at the end and the ace of H , rabbit got 2 more trump in hand and 1 more in dummy and hog cant really play other than a black colour thougth he is doing some magical stuff sometimes...

 

syl

 

PS : solution given by winston is correct , havent got time to read one of flame ...

[david_c]

ohh I see, if he leads a club you have a dummy reversal. That's beautiful! Pity that other ways seem to work too.

[jjsb]

yes true it would be nice it was an only way to make . the way rabbit play it is very nice !! i liked this hand a lot , Flame got it correct too by the way as i can see it

 

regards

syl

[david_c]

hmm, what happens if we swap the ♥9 and ♥8? The rabbit's line seems to work still. Maybe now the only way to make the contract is to discard the ♣A on a spade at trick two?

[jjsb]

david wrote

 

" hmm, what happens if we swap the ♥9 and ♥8? The rabbit's line seems to work still. Maybe now the only way to make the contract is to discard the ♣A on a spade at trick two?"

 

very good point David !!! that is now very neat hand with that swap ! roland u should have changed the deal a little B)

 

regards

syl

[Walddk]

Thanks a lot everyone for your interest in this very cute hand. Sylvain (jjsb) is quite right; it was taken from one of Victor Mollo's fantastic books starring the Rueful Rabbit and his friends.

 

Here is the pretty solution to 11 tricks in 5♦:

 

♠A, ♠K pitching ♣A!! Spade ruff, club to the king, club ruff, diamond to the king, club ruff.

 

Heart to West's king. He will now have to give us a ruff by leading a black card. Heart to the ace, club ruff. The 11th trick is ♦J.

 

It's actually a dummy reversal combined with an endplay. Bridge is amazing B)

 

Roland