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Problem: You are South on this deal, and open the bidding with 1♦, and find yourself in 6♦ after a few rounds of bidding. Plan the play after West leads the ♣K. Solution: You need to avoid losing two spade tricks, and the obvious solution is to take the double finesse in spades (i.e. play a spade to the ten, followed by a spade to the queen), which succeeds whenever West holds at least one spade honor, a 75% chance. When East has both the spade honors, this line of play fails. There is another line of play that guarantees the contract regardless of the position of the king and jack of spades. Win the club lead with the ace, cash the ♥A, play a diamond to the Ace and when all follow to the first diamond, cash the ♦Q. Now cash the ♥K discarding a club, cash the ♥Q discarding a spade, and ruff a heart. Enter dummy with the ♦10, and ruff the club. The position now is:
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If diamonds are 3-0, you need to use the ace and queen of diamonds as entries to ruff a heart and club to complete the elimination, therefore it is essential to unblock the ♥A before you play a diamond to dummy.
Bridge Baron deal No : N3763-78608-30676-78848-81398-74269 You can download this deal in PPL format, and view it with Bridge Baron here :Deal Of The Week |
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