There's probably an easier way

There's probably an easier way The way I found is pretty cool

#1 Lord Molyb

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Posted 2013-August-04, 08:19

West leads the ♦10 to the ace. East returns ♠J and west discards a heart.

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#2 manudude03

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Posted 2013-August-04, 09:03

We know both finesses are offside, so win the spade return and exit a diamond, say East exits a spade again, ruff a diamond. If diamonds are 3-3, we can just draw another round of trumps and start cashing diamonds. If 4-2, East cannot profitably ruff (or else you have 6 spade tricks, 1 diamond, 2 clubs and a heart), so when you ruff it, you can cross back in trumps, ruff another diamond, again East can't afford to ruff. Now exit your remaining trump to endplay East in hearts and clubs.

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Posted 2013-August-05, 11:11

I'd draw ♠AKQ and exit a ♦. There's no lack of entries so we can set up ♦ later if necessary. I don't think it matters though.

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#4 gszes

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Posted 2013-August-05, 11:58

assuming dia are no worse than 42 and rho has the AK of dia the fact
that trumps break 40 (with rho) only adds a little spice to the deal.

trick 1 lose (I do that well)
trick 2 win trump ace (I do that sort of well)
trick 3 dia
trick 4 win trump K
trick 5 dia expecting to trump (if dia 33 hand is over so they are 42 or boring)
trick 6 trump to Q
trick 7 another dia trump

note that it does rho no good to ever ruff a dia in front of me assuming they
started with 2.
we are reduced to

void
AQ
x
AKx
------------J
------------K(x)
------------void
------------Qx(xx)
x
xx
void
JTx

we have lost 2 tricks won 5

trick 8 small club to A
note that we cannot throw rho in with spade as that squeezes dummy
trick 9 last dia pitching heart no matter what rho does
what is rho to do ?? If they ruff they must lead into a tenace and we score the rest of the tricks
lets assume they duck. What are they going to pitch?

trick 10 lead top club If the Q falls the hand is over if rho ruffs they must lead a heart and hand is over
so we assume the Q does not fall and next we play
trick 11 the heart A this must drop the K and we then play
trick 12 heart Q pitching last club no matter what rho does.
trick 13 either we already have ten or we win this trick for ten no matter (applause)

what????? lho had the club Q you say but you promised 13-15 noooooooooooooooo:(

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