[Fluffy]

Hi!

I´ve finally won my first BBO tourney!, probably I am not on uday´s black list and he will keep track on my IP and stuff (just joking).

ok, ok, it was just an 8 pairs 16 board IMP tourney, and I was playing with a gold star, still I had something to do, didn´t I?

Oh yes, the hand (I know you don´t care about what was above written )

Scoring: IMP

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Opponents faield to bid during the whole bidding (and they could at low level) but you sadly land in 4♥ when 3NT seems better, and receive the ♥J lead.

[inquiry]

Congradulations, the first of many wins, I am sure.

Ben

[cnszsun]

If West has one trump and East has 4, i hope the following line will work:
win first trick with ♥Q, play ♦A and K, duck 3rd ♦,
if East has 4 ♦s, you can ruff 4th ♦ in dummy and finesse his trump, otherwise, you play 4th ♦ and pithching a ♣ from dummy, later ruff a ♣ in dummy instead.

[Trpltrbl]

Playing for ♥ 4-1 and either ♦ 3-3 or 4-2 with long ♥ with long ♦.

Mike

[Fluffy]

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Simple play: ruff a ♦ with ♥8 works, with the ♥10 at left it will work regardless you duck first or 3rd♦.

Discarding a ♣ may work, but you need to be very careful!, if you win ♥A looking to ruff a ♦ easylly when East has 4♦ and play 3 rounds of ♦ you are going to fail: 4th ♦ for ♣ discard and ♠switch. After you ruff a ♣ you are locked in dummy unable to draw the last trump before it gets promoted with a 3rd ♠.

[EarlPurple]

You can't duck the first diamond, or you might just find your 3rd one gets ruffed - unless you played off another round of trumps first.

[Free]

If you play a round of trumps first, and give away a ♦ later, you won't be able to ruff a ♦. So just play ♦AK and exit one...

Btw, congrats Fluffy

[EarlPurple]

if you duck the first round of diamonds then before you play the 3rd round you must draw a 2nd round of trumps.

Works with the layout as it is but fails if the hand with 2 diamonds has 3 trumps, which is more likely anyway by the law of vacant spaces.