[Trumpace]

Perhaps an easier one this time.


You are South in 6H and west leads a club.

You see:

Scoring: Rubber

Lead low ♣

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YOu win the lead with CA and play AQ of trumps and RHO throws a club on the second trump.

Plan the play.

[vuroth]

J♥, cross to K♦, draw the last trump. AK♠.

If both follow on both rounds of spades, I'll lead the J♠, discarding a ♦, and I'll take 4♠s, 5♥s, 2♦s and 1♣.

If ♠s are 5-1 or 6-0, I will have to fall back on the ♦ finesse for my 12th trick.

Aside:

Spoiler

If hearts had been 3-2, I would have been better off ruffing a club at trick 4, then playing on in spades, trying to endplay someone into leading diamonds or giving me a ruff-and-sluff in clubs, right?

[Little Kid]

If you overtake the ♦J instead of playing a small one to the K, I think you can improve your chances of getting 4♦ tricks if the ♠ don't break. Then you can get 4♦ tricks whenever they are 3-2 or RHO has 4.

[Cyberyeti]

Have I missed something ? unless diamonds are 5-0, this is a spread. LHO has the trumps, so I'll cash dummy's third heart and run J♦ towards him.

If diamonds are 5-0 either way round I may have to take the spade finesse or ruffing finesse, but otherwise this is over.

[Little Kid]

Ignore anything I said, I am making no sense

This post has been edited by Little Kid: 2010-January-25, 11:21

[vuroth]

Cyberyeti, on Jan 25 2010, 11:58 AM, said:

Have I missed something ? unless diamonds are 5-0, this is a spread. LHO has the trumps, so I'll cash dummy's third heart and run J♦ towards him.

If diamonds are 5-0 either way round I may have to take the spade finesse or ruffing finesse, but otherwise this is over.

If RHO covers the J♦ with the Q♦ and ♦s are 4-1 either way?

[quiddity]

If rho covers the J, play the K and draw the last trump. Then play a diamond to the ace and another back to the T to establish at least 4 diamond tricks (and you have the 5th trump as an entry). 4 diamonds, 5 hearts, 2 spades, and 1 club.

[vuroth]

I see it now. Thanks.

V

[Jlall]

those spades are a mirage