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#1 User is offline   Jlall 

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Posted 2010-January-24, 03:23



You open 1S, X on your left, 2H (constr raise) by pard, 2N by you, 3S from pard, 3N by you, 4S from pard, all pass.

Lefty leads the trump 8. You draw trumps in 3 rounds unblocking the ten, LHO pitching 2 diamonds (encouraging). You play a club to the 9, RHO wins the king, and plays back the HJ.

How do you play? Imps.
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Posted 2010-January-24, 05:12

It's probably wrong but I'm playing the Q and if LHO wins and switches to a diamond I'm playing low. If the Q holds or the LHO returns a heart I'm playing a low club to the Q.
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Posted 2010-January-24, 06:32

♥A and both remaining trumps to arrive to:

♠---
♥(7)
♦AT(9)
♣Q52


♠---
♥Q6
♦Q2
♣J4

Expecting LHO to have had:

♠x
♥Kxxx
♦KJxx
♣ATxx

Edit: I changed the red cards in dummy. By the way what would change if LHO plays ♣T on the first round of the suit?

 wyman, 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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Posted 2010-January-24, 07:34

It looks easy easy to go wrong assuming West just had 1453, by just playing a Club now.

As West is marked with the remaining Ace-Kings, it costs nothing to go up with the Ace and play the 2 remaining trumps. West will (or may) have to cope with 3 suits, and we should be able to read the position now, and find the right endplay always leading to 10 tricks (edit: of course dummy keeps -- x AT Qxx).

It allows us to win in case West had x Kxxx KJxx ATxx... and "forgot" to insert the ♣T at trick 4 :) . Poor him.

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Posted 2010-January-24, 07:48

Hanoi5, on Jan 24 2010, 02:32 PM, said:

♥A and both remaining trumps to arrive to:

♠---
♥---
♦AT9
♣Q52


♠---
♥Q6
♦Q2
♣J4

Expecting LHO to have had:

♠x
♥Kxxx
♦KJxx
♣ATxx

This is not good if LHO kept:
     ♠---
     ♥---
     ♦AT9
     ♣Q52
♠---
♥Kx
♦KJ
♣AT
     ♠---
     ♥Q6
     ♦Q2
     ♣J4
When you play ♣ then LHO will play A and return a ♣.
It is better to keep in dummy then:
     ♠---
     ♥x
     ♦AT
     ♣Q52
You play ♣ and LHO takes Ace and returns ♣, but he will be squeezed on 3th ♣ because you can throw him in if he did put ♥K singleton.
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Posted 2010-January-24, 07:54

This is a really cool hand - you give up a trick by not ruffing a heart in dummy, but the squeeze gets that trick back and gains another trick on top of it.

Bob seems to be especially good at farsighted unblocks of the 10 of spades. Have a look at this hand he played against me way back in 2003 by clicking on one of these links:

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Bob is indeed pretty good :)

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Posted 2010-January-24, 07:57

win heart ace then club jack...

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i am guessing rho has the club T, if not you can still finesse the next time.
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Posted 2010-January-24, 08:03

fred, on Jan 24 2010, 01:54 PM, said:

This is a really cool hand - you give up a trick by not ruffing a heart in dummy, but the squeeze gets that trick back and gains another trick on top of it.

Bob seems to be especially good at farsighted unblocks of the 10 of spades. Have a look at this hand he played against me way back in 2003 by clicking on one of these links:

Click for Java presentation

Click to download .lin file

Bob is indeed pretty good :)

Fred, thank you, this play "at the table" was really amazing. (and also thanx for allowing us to follow it with your very (as always) thoughtful comments. It feels almost "live").

Best regards.
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Posted 2010-January-24, 08:09

fred, on Jan 24 2010, 08:54 AM, said:

This is a really cool hand - you give up a trick by not ruffing a heart in dummy, but the squeeze gets that trick back and gains another trick on top of it.

Bob seems to be especially good at farsighted unblocks of the 10 of spades. Have a look at this hand he played against me way back in 2003 by clicking on one of these links:

Click for Java presentation

Click to download .lin file

Bob is indeed pretty good :)

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Yeah... he did this yesterday at a sectional like it was no prob haha.

My analysis in the post mortem at the other table was that this hand could not be made even after a trump lead.

I did not see Bob's line, but did I luck into being correct? (LHO was 1354).
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Posted 2010-January-24, 08:37

Jlall, on Jan 24 2010, 02:09 PM, said:

fred, on Jan 24 2010, 08:54 AM, said:

This is a really cool hand - you give up a trick by not ruffing a heart in dummy, but the squeeze gets that trick back and gains another trick on top of it.

Bob seems to be especially good at farsighted unblocks of the 10 of spades. Have a look at this hand he played against me way back in 2003 by clicking on one of these links:

Click for Java presentation

Click to download .lin file

Bob is indeed pretty good :)

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Yeah... he did this yesterday at a sectional like it was no prob haha.

My analysis in the post mortem at the other table was that this hand could not be made even after a trump lead.

I did not see Bob's line, but did I luck into being correct? (LHO was 1354).

It looks as if a Club back after the King definitely ruins the endplay when West is 1354. I find it impossible to find at the table.

Inserting the ♣10 at the first turn also works nicely because it destroys the entry position (it works whenever Clubs are 4-2, doesn't it ?). I wonder who would find this at the table (not me!). Maybe Mr. Hamman ?
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Posted 2010-January-24, 08:41

dellache, on Jan 24 2010, 09:37 AM, said:

Jlall, on Jan 24 2010, 02:09 PM, said:

fred, on Jan 24 2010, 08:54 AM, said:

This is a really cool hand - you give up a trick by not ruffing a heart in dummy, but the squeeze gets that trick back and gains another trick on top of it.

Bob seems to be especially good at farsighted unblocks of the 10 of spades. Have a look at this hand he played against me way back in 2003 by clicking on one of these links:

Click for Java presentation

Click to download .lin file

Bob is indeed pretty good :)

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

Yeah... he did this yesterday at a sectional like it was no prob haha.

My analysis in the post mortem at the other table was that this hand could not be made even after a trump lead.

I did not see Bob's line, but did I luck into being correct? (LHO was 1354).

It looks as if a Club back after the King definitely ruins the endplay when West is 1354. I find it impossible to find at the table.

Inserting the ♣10 at the first turn also works nicely because it destroys the entry position (it works whenever Clubs are 4-2, doesn't it ?). I wonder who would find this at the table (not me!). Maybe Mr. Hamman ?

Yep, a club back was what I was thinking... I find that to be an amazing play! Beautiful hand all around, and well played by Bob.
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