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Contract is 4♠ in the North. Club lead. Plan the play.
If you...
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Posted 2010-April-08, 20:57
Contract is 4♠ in the North. Club lead. Plan the play.
If you...
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Posted 2010-April-08, 21:27
that is a tricky "if you". I guess it means if I lead a low spade at trick two, the opps will play the queen and jack on this trick, then both follow when I regain the lead and play the top ones.
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Posted 2010-April-08, 22:52
AK of spades followed by 3 diamonds pitching a club seems pretty obvious. If that holds play another diamond pitching a heart.
I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).
At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.
Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.
I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).
At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.
Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.
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Posted 2010-April-09, 05:58
Jlall, on Apr 8 2010, 11:52 PM, said:
AK of spades followed by 3 diamonds pitching a club seems pretty obvious. If that holds play another diamond pitching a heart.
I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).
At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.
Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.
I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).
At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.
Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.
No -- that's the line. A lot of folks missed it, so I thought I'd share it. Of course, this is a no-brainer for most of us here, but not so much for the real world.
Diamonds split 4-2 with the 4 diamonds with the QJxx in trumps. The heart Ace was over the K-Q in hearts. So, on the proper line, you get a club pitch, then a heart pitch, and then even another heart pitch.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
-P.J. Painter.
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