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There might have been a way... But I didn't play for it...

#1 User is offline   Hanoi5 

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Posted 2009-February-01, 06:09

I'm playing a team match of 198 boards. With 64 boards to go we are trailing by 100 imp's. I was starting to feel the 'need' to get imp's and so got to 6♦ in a 3NT hand:

♠9xx
♥Qx
♦A?xx
♣AJxx

♠AK
♥A98x
♦QT9x
♣KQx

1♦-2NT-6♦. A diamond was led with the comment:'I don't think this will give anything away'. Needless to say I went down. The ♦8 might have been the ? card on the table and if so I could have made the contract, do you see how?

By the way, we're down 140 imp's, 48 boards to go, do you have any advice?

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2009-February-01, 07:17

The easy way to make this is to play east for ♥K, ♦KJ tight and clubs 3-3.

Win the ace in dummy, cash the top spades and three clubs ending in dummy. Ruff a spade and endplay east with the ♦K.

As for the match, I'd throw in the towel at this point. You've got enough.
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Posted 2009-February-01, 13:07

198 boards is a strange number. 128 maybe?

I would have conceded, but since I'm still playing and not drinking I will take Harald's line.
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Posted 2009-February-02, 10:31

Hanoi5, on Feb 1 2009, 07:09 AM, said:

By the way, we're down 140 imp's, 48 boards to go, do you have any advice?

Don't play 198 board matches :P.
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Posted 2009-February-02, 11:42

♦8 was third so no way to make it.

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


View Postrbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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