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#1 User is offline   mohitz 

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  Posted 2009-December-05, 01:39

Auction (p) - 1NT - (p) - 3NT all pass

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Lead is the beer card(4th best).

Trick 1: 7 4 Q ?

Can you make this?
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Posted 2009-December-05, 04:03

I would reject the genuine chances to make this (stiff ♠J by West for example) and choose a more practical play. I need West to have the ♥Ace to have any chance of stealing this.

West knows that I have the ♦J, and I want to benefit from this before East has any chance to signal. I take the ♦Ace, and play a Heart toward the Queen. West has to take this and cash out if he also has the ♠K. No doubt he may/should find the right defense, but if he doesn't he will be subjected to a triple suit squeeze. (I suppose I play a weak NT and opened a maximal weak NT hand).
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Posted 2009-December-05, 11:26

There is another genuine chance: the diamonds may be blocked, West having led from K1087 (or 87xxx, if they do that). If so, a heart to the queen is a reasonable start; we can decide what layout to play for later.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2009-December-06, 00:14

Diamonds were indeed blocked.

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