[kfay]

FrancesHinden, on Jan 8 2008, 09:08 AM, said:

Read Larry Cohen's article in a recent bridge world about a 'routine' declarer play hand (I think it was an endplay, can't remember) from the Life masters pairs, and how few people took the technical line.

It was a basic strip play. It was a good article although I think that several people got it right so it was more in the 30% range here. But obviously this play is much easier than that in the OP.

[y66]

This post makes me feel like I'm pretty lucky to be playing bridge in the DC area. I'll bet there are 100+ A/X players who would get this one right at the table most of the time (yours truly most definitely not included, not A/X either).

On a given Thursday night, that works out to 30+ percent of declarers in the A/X game.

You guys better start working on your game if you want to do well in the summer '09 Nationals!

Maybe I'll be getting these right by then too. I'll be trying!

p.s. This is a typical BridgeMaster level 4 problem.