[inquiry]

Scoring: IMP

Contract 6♥

Opening lead ♠J

True story, only 1 of 12 BBO declarers made 12 tricks (6 in slam). They all should do better, especially since several were "experts". How about you?

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[AceOfHeart]

try discarding a spade on the 3rd club and ruffing away the spade loser?
win with the king draw a round of trumps play AQ club spade to Ace king club discarding a spade spade ruff and draw trumps and lose one dia in the end?

[inquiry]

TaDa......... well done.

Yes, this is the play. How can so many miss it? On the actual hand, playing 3♣ and going for a ♠ ruff is enough. No problems. If you want to be even more careful, how might you play (the general play, is exactly as AceofHearts suggested).

Ben

PS.. I wrote this without noticing your excellent idea of drawing one round of trumps. Anything else?

[bearmum]

K♠A ♣Q♣A♠K♣discarding a ♠ A♠ ♠ruff draw trumps and give up the last trick to a ♦

[inquiry]

When playing for a ♠ruff in dummy (after pitching a ♠ on the third round of ♣'s), there is two problems. If you play two rounds of trumps first, you will be stuck in dummy after ruffing the ♠. When you lead a ♦ if the opponent with the fourth ♣ can win the trick, he can give his partner a ♣ ruff.

So as long as you keep communication between the hands you will be ok. You can do this a couple of ways. First, play on the black suits before touching trumps. Or ducking a ♦ early. The one thing you can't do is pull two rounds of trumps and then ruff a ♠ in dummy.

Ben

[Free]

Yes, but if trumps are 4-1 and you play ♦ first, you might become short in ♥s I guess... So only 1 round of trumps has to do it.

[inquiry]

Free, on Feb 9 2004, 02:06 PM, said:

Yes, but if trumps are 4-1 and you play ♦ first, you might become short in ♥s I guess... So only 1 round of trumps has to do it.

Not really, if they win the ♦ and continue a ♦ they give you the time for a dummy-reversal, cross ruff kind of thing.

You win 2♠+3♣+4♦ruff+3♥. You can't play this way to start off with, because you lack the entries I think. There winning and continuing a ♦ helps you execute this play.

Ben

[Trpltrbl]

♠ ruff in dummy without pulling trump to much, being stuck in dummy can be painfull. Maybe some weird endplay in ♦ might work but I am opting for ♣ to break 4-3.

Mike