[jillybean]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 -     Pass  Pass  1NT
 Pass  2♣    Pass  2♥
 Pass  3♥    Pass  4♥
 Dbl   Pass  Pass  Pass
 


Trick 1 9♥, 3♥, 4♥ 10♥
Trick 2 K♥, 2♥, 5♥, 2♦

What is your plan (intermediates first please!)

[Mr. Dodgy]

ewww.

I'm gonna thrown them in with ♠s every chance I get and cross my fingers.

[jillybean]

Thanks MrD, I hate these play problems so Im not too surprised you are the only one to respond. Lets open it for everyone.

Here’s how I played it (hidden). Being able to finally see, plan and execute a play, (and it works) is fantastic. Maybe there is a better play..lets see

Spoiler

Trick3
AandK♦
Ruffed 6♦
A♥
K♣
5♣ to J♣
J♥
(3 ♠ losers)

[Wackojack]

Hi Jilly,

Since no other takers I will try.

I could play West to have ♣Qxx, in which case after ♦AK and ruff, I run ♣J. West covers, I win with ♣K. Then I run the 9 on the way back. However, I can still make with ♣Q10x with west, provided she started with:
♠ AKQ
♥9872 (known)
♦ Qxx ( or any 3 card diamond holding)
♣ Q10x (or any 3 card club holding)

I think this is very likely, and East's discard of 2♦ from 5 is further evidence.
So I will play ♦AK and ruff as before, draw trumps and then play a spade. After cashing ♠AKQ, west has to lead a club conceding the remaing tricks.

If West was being very speculative and only held ♠AK doubleton, I will still make(indeed an overtrick) provided she holds 4 clubs. Otherwise going down is inevitable, but I am pretty confident.

Sorry I tried hiding the text without success. Perhaps someone can tell me how.

[bid_em_up]

Wackojack, on Oct 2 2006, 06:02 AM, said:

Sorry I tried hiding the text without success.  Perhaps someone can tell me how.

The simplest way is to change the font color to white.

use "[" and "]" instead of brackets in the following example.

{color=white}My Hidden text goes here{/color}

would give you:

My Hidden text goes here

By placing a white font color on a white background, you make the text unreadable, unless the cursor is dragged across it. Although, it is slightly readable here (if you look REAL close), its because the background is actually a bluish color.


The other way is to use this (again substitute [ and ] for brackets):

{Hidden}My hidden text is here{/hidden}

will appear like this:

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My hidden text is here