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#1 User is offline   manudude03 

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Posted 2017-February-06, 08:55

I was playing in Northern Ireland's premier teams competition. Had a few bad boards which may have won it. Here's the first of them.



You get a fourth-best 2 lead. Plan the play.
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Posted 2017-February-06, 12:34

View Postmanudude03, on 2017-February-06, 08:55, said:

I was playing in Northern Ireland's premier teams competition. Had a few bad boards which may have won it. Here's the first of them.



You get a fourth-best 2 lead. Plan the play.
Trying to keep the A as an entry by flying K at trick 1 is going to give me too many losers. I think I have to abandon the spades and clubs in favor of trying for three diamond stoppers and hope the opponents have to do something good for me (of course a spade miracle might work too.)

I play the 6; hopefully it's too soon for South to realize that the 7 is a good play. I capture South's card with the A and lead a heart (I have to use hand entries to lead hearts because I can't afford to be stuck on the board later leading hearts.) I don't think I can go much further here as it depends on who wins the heart and what they lead when they do. But I presume the early play is what is critical.
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Posted 2017-February-06, 15:25

My very unimaginative plan is just to knock out the A before playing on spades, preserving entries to the J if the spade finesse is working.

I'll play the 8 from dummy at trick 1, hopefully creating a third diamond stopper should I need it.
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