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Posted 2014-August-19, 06:23

This hand appeared last night, and was not played in the relevant contract at any of the 3 tables, but does have some fun elements.



I give the actual bidding but consider S playing 4 (or 5 but trying to gain some MPs by only going -1).

A club lead is fairly awkward, say declarer wins then ducks a spade and W returns either his second club or the K. You win the return and draw trumps finding W has 3 along with the probably 7 spades he's shown in the auction.

Now you rumble 5 trumps and reach a pleasingly symmetrical pair of end positions: (E can't discard a club or you simply establish dummy's 4th one so his discards are fixed)

If he returned a second club:



If he returned K



In either case you now cash your final trump, throwing the suit of which dummy has 3, and E has the choice of discarding from the suit of which he has 3, in which case you play 2 rounds of that suit and endplay him for 10 tricks, or discard from his doubleton and get thrown in in that suit for 11.
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Posted 2014-August-19, 08:04

If he returned K you're in dummy, so you can't play your last trump.

Nice positions otherwise ;)
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Posted 2014-August-19, 08:44

View PostFree, on 2014-August-19, 08:04, said:

If he returned K you're in dummy, so you can't play your last trump.

Nice positions otherwise ;)


I purposely hadn't drawn trumps yet for that reason.

You also struggle if you play dummy's KQ trumps as W can return a third trump, I hadn't calculated whether that can be got round.
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