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The hand was now completely counted out. All I had to do was double hook the heart, leave the clubs alone and if E splits his honors take my ace and endplay him (If West wins a heart he has to exit a heart to avoid a club finesse). Either way, East gets endplayed into giving me an entry to dummy for the club later and a second spade trick. WHY DID I CASH THE QUEEN!! I then didn't even recover and play east for both heart honors, I meekly cashed out....sigh...
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A rant I just got back from the club....
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Posted 2011-November-14, 16:07
I'm still pissed that I got this wrong....I'm pleased that I was able to forget it until the end of the night.
The hand was now completely counted out. All I had to do was double hook the heart, leave the clubs alone and if E splits his honors take my ace and endplay him (If West wins a heart he has to exit a heart to avoid a club finesse). Either way, East gets endplayed into giving me an entry to dummy for the club later and a second spade trick. WHY DID I CASH THE QUEEN!! I then didn't even recover and play east for both heart honors, I meekly cashed out....sigh...
The hand was now completely counted out. All I had to do was double hook the heart, leave the clubs alone and if E splits his honors take my ace and endplay him (If West wins a heart he has to exit a heart to avoid a club finesse). Either way, East gets endplayed into giving me an entry to dummy for the club later and a second spade trick. WHY DID I CASH THE QUEEN!! I then didn't even recover and play east for both heart honors, I meekly cashed out....sigh...
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Posted 2011-November-14, 17:10
Cashing the queen is fine, just discard the suit E doesn't and play 3 rounds of the one he discarded. You're playing him for ♥K, you'll duck if he plays this, but he doesn't need the Q too.
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Posted 2011-November-14, 17:14
Cyberyeti, on 2011-November-14, 17:10, said:
Cashing the queen is fine, just discard the suit E doesn't and play 3 rounds of the one he discarded. You're playing him for ♥K, you'll duck if he plays this, but he doesn't need the Q too.
The reason I didn't was because LHO just might have the heart Queen and I'd go down when I should have made an overtrick. Not cashing the queen protects against all that. But you're correct, I should have made the overtrick anyways.
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Posted 2011-November-15, 05:57
BunnyGo, on 2011-November-14, 17:14, said:
The reason I didn't was because LHO just might have the heart Queen and I'd go down when I should have made an overtrick. Not cashing the queen protects against all that. But you're correct, I should have made the overtrick anyways.
LHO having the ♥Q doesn't hurt you, you duck if RHO plays the K and play the A and another if he doesn't, only if LHO has the K do you go off.
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