Posted 2010-March-16, 22:04
I would try to pitch both diamonds on the clubs, then crossruff diamonds and hearts for as long as possible. If the Ace of diamonds ruffs out I pitch a heart on the setup diamond. Plan is to lose one heart and two spades (a ruff at any stage and a trump trick, or two trump tricks).
Pitching the hearts on clubs, planning to lose only one trump seems less clear to me, sometimes we have 2 trump losers by force, sometimes we need to guess how to play the trumps for one loser, sometimes we run into a diamond ruff while trying to play trumps for one loser... (although neither opponent has led diamonds so a diamond ruff is not so likely)
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.