WesleyC Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Knockout IMPs! [hv=pc=n&s=skqjt5haq7d6cj842&n=s943h5dqj5432cak5&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1sp2c(*Art%2C%203-way)p2d(*Art%2C%20Accepting%20a%20limit%20raise.)p4sppp]266|200[/hv] West leads the ♠2. East wins with the ♠A and returns the ♠7 as West follows with the ♠6. Plan the play! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhm Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Knockout IMPs! [hv=pc=n&s=skqjt5haq7d6cj842&n=s943h5dqj5432cak5&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1sp2c(*Art%2C%203-way)p2d(*Art%2C%20Accepting%20a%20limit%20raise.)p4sppp]266|200[/hv] West leads the ♠2. East wins with the ♠A and returns the ♠7 as West follows with the ♠6. Plan the play!Unblock a spade honor from hand on the ♠A. Win second spade in hand and play ♦6. If West goes in you are obviously in great shape with 3 entries to dummy. For example if West continues spades, win in dummy and run a diamond honor. If East does not cover, discard. Whenever diamonds are no worse than 4-2 you are home. with 3 diamond tricks. So let's assume West plays low to the first diamond. Now comes the critical play, duck in dummy! If diamonds are 4-2 either way your best chance is that someone holds ♦Kx or ♦Ax. Your intention is to ruff a second low diamond from dummy and if an honor drops give up a third diamond to the remaining honor.If no honor drops hope diamonds are 3-3. If West has ducked with ♦AKxx the first diamond from hand look for different opponents. These ones are too tough. How good is this line?After the trump lead and continuation chances that there is a singleton or void in diamonds must be negligible. Assuming West would not duck with ♦AKxx the line is somewhere between 85 and 90% and this assumes West would lead a trump holding a small doubleton in diamonds. Rainer Herrmann 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodepp Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Wow, what a super line Rainer came up with :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesleyC Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 I shouldn't post such easy hands in the Expert forum while Rainer is around :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_20686 Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Wow, what a super line Rainer came up with :) Clearly your new here. I cannot even remember the last time Rainer didn't come up with the best line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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