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Problem: Your partnership reaches the excellent contract of 6♣ after an uncontested auction. West leads the ♣3, which is the only lead to test you, and East follows with the ♣9. What is your plan to come to twelve tricks? Solution: On any other lead other than a trump, you would have been able to ruff two spades in dummy, and discard another spade on the ♥A, losing just one spade. The defense threatens to thwart this plan by opening a trump. If you play play a low spade at trick two, then the player with the second trump (East on this deal) would win the trick and play a second trump. You could still succeed if the ♥J comes down in three (or fewer) rounds, but as that does not materialize on this deal, you would go down. The key to this deal is to try to place the lead to the opponent who can't do much damage. You can do this in one of the following two ways:
Lead the ♠K at trick two
Lead the ♠J at trick two.
It is pretty much a toss-up whether to lead the ♠K or the ♠J. Also, you can cash the king and queen of hearts before you exit with a spade honor. In fact, you need to cash the king and queen of hearts before you take the second spade ruff in dummy, so that you are able to cash the ♥A when you are in dummy for the last time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridge Baron's Line of Play Bridge Baron deal No : N1260-99982-49474-41957-68694-68077 |
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