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Have we had this one? A suit combination

#1 User is offline   cherdano 

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Posted 2007-October-14, 00:37

We haven't had any in a while:

Best play for 3 tricks. For 4 tricks. At matchpoints.
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Posted 2007-October-14, 00:56

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Posted 2007-October-14, 01:38

Rossoneri, your line also fails when K10xx is onside.

For 3 tricks
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For four tricks
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But at matchpoints
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But I could be wrong...
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2007-October-14, 15:28

Apparently it is not so well-known, no answer is correct yet... :)
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Posted 2007-October-14, 15:58

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Posted 2007-October-14, 15:58

For 4 tricks it seems good to lead low to the Q, followed by a guess as to what ended up singleton now.
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Posted 2007-October-17, 00:31

I think the best answer hasn't been given yet. There a different possible answers to both of the first two question, but one line answers them both and thus is always the technically correct one if you don't have any clues about the distribution.

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I don't think I think I have seen this line before, but for no particular reason I started thinking about this combination last weekend. The suit combination looks very common, though.
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Posted 2007-October-17, 02:42

Actually, the one that appears in the dictionary doesn't have the 8. Without it, the book play is finesse + guess.
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Posted 2007-October-17, 04:50

For 3 tricks: Finesse to Q, if it wins go to dummy and finesse again to the 8
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