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#21 User is offline   l milne 

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Posted 2010-October-29, 17:12

So how'd you mess it up? What mistake do you think you made?
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Posted 2010-October-29, 17:36

It's strange that everyone keeps talking about running the queen of trumps. As WellSpyder pointed out, running the 10 is much better than running the queen, and only fractionally worse than playing them from the top.
... 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 2010-October-30, 00:24

View Postl milne, on 2010-October-29, 17:12, said:

So how'd you mess it up? What mistake do you think you made?

He claimed without giving a specific line in clubs...and they split 4-0 onside. In fairness this was the last day of a long event in a big final, and they had played wonderfully to reach that point from what I managed to see on vugraph.
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Posted 2010-October-31, 07:11

View Postgnasher, on 2010-October-29, 17:36, said:

It's strange that everyone keeps talking about running the queen of trumps. As WellSpyder pointed out, running the 10 is much better than running the queen, and only fractionally worse than playing them from the top.

Was gonna say it, you beated me to it :(.

On practice low heart to the 10 is 100% against my usual opps, not even losing against Kxx on my left. However it always loses 1 trick.

Making it funnier, if south's hand was

♠Axx
♥A98x
♦AKJ
♣Kxx

what kind of opponents you'd need for low heart to the queen to be your best hope?
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Posted 2010-November-03, 14:19

View PostFluffy, on 2010-October-31, 07:11, said:

On practice low heart to the 10 is 100% against my usual opps, not even losing against Kxx on my left. However it always loses 1 trick.

LOL. The trouble is that LHO may duck anyway, for wrong reason. He may be afraid of his partner holding singleton ace of trumps (not impossible given that the opponents never checked keycards)...
 
 
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Posted 2010-November-03, 18:12

View Postkfay, on 2010-October-27, 12:46, said:

World Junior Teams during my team's (USA) semi-final match against Israel.
How do you play on the lead of the ♦2 (3/5)?
Gnasher's line seems OK: Win ♦, ♥A, ♠A, ruff ♠, Cash ♦s, lead ♥.
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