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One last gem from the Keystone State A hand from the Lancaster Regional

#1 User is offline   keylime 

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  Posted 2005-November-08, 06:21

BTW for the real experts, shhhh.....this is easy for us.

For the mere mortals tho, enjoy this tester:

You and your highly handsome pard have arrived at six diamonds via a reverse.

Scoring: MP


The lead is the Q♣. Play the hand, and be a hero to pard.
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Posted 2005-November-11, 03:40

:) To get to 12 I have to have the heart hook or pick up trumps w/o a loser. So, win in dummy and play a heart to the queen. If this wins, then try the diamond ace. With a 2-1 trump split, I am home free with six diamonds, one club, two hearts, two spades and a heart ruff. With 3-0 diamonds, I would play the same way, and hope the four hearts lie with the three diamonds or the KJ of hearts falls in three rounds..

Should the heart hook lose, I will need some luck. Assume a neutral spade back. Now play heart ace and ruff a heart. Hook the diamond (the percentage play). With a 2-1 I'm home. Otherwise, I have to hope RHO has the long heart.
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Posted 2005-November-11, 06:37

well i'm not even close to being an expert, which explains my line

win the ♣A, finesse in trumps... assuming it loses, ruff the club return, draw the last trump, lead the ♠A and lead your ♦2 to the board's ♦5 toss 2 hearts on the spades and hook the ♥Q
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Posted 2005-November-11, 15:14

Trumps are 2-1, K guarded on LHO's hand.

Luke's line is what I took. Practical DOES work still. :-)
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Posted 2005-November-12, 03:14

I think it is best to take the H hook first. Playing on D first looses if D are 3-0.
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