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6H -1 Can it be made?

#1 User is offline   petergreat 

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Posted 2009-April-20, 06:17

Scoring: IMP



The bidding:

1♥ P 1♠ P
3♣ P 4♥ P
5♦ X 5♥ P
6♥ AP

Lead : ♠A, switch to ♣2

If you draw trumps you will find that South has J432.
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Posted 2009-April-20, 06:25

Let it run to the K, cash a top trump. Club to the ace, finesse hearts, ruff a club high, finesse again. Draw the last trump and claim. Once you pick up the 4-0 trump split, you make if clubs are no worse than 4-2.
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Posted 2009-April-20, 06:29

There were significantly more challenging defences available e.g. a diamond lead
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Posted 2009-April-20, 08:42

GiB calculates that a diamond lead would make declarer lose trump control and the contract.

I played AK and a low club ruffed by the Q, followed by trump finesse. South discarded a spade on the low club. When I tried to use a spade to get to table to finesse again he ruffed.

Seems like manudude03's line is best.
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Posted 2009-April-20, 09:29

was anyone else puzzled by the 3♣ bid? Was this in the context of a strong club method? If not, 3♣ is terrible.
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Posted 2009-April-20, 09:32

mikeh, on Apr 20 2009, 10:29 AM, said:

was anyone else puzzled by the 3♣ bid? Was this in the context of a strong club method? If not, 3♣ is terrible.

You will be less puzzled about 3♣ once you look at the rest of the auction.
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