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#1 User is offline   Echognome 

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Posted 2005-June-08, 18:38

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3♦ - 3NT
All Pass


I didn't have this exact problem tonight, but a similar one. I think it's an instructive hand in making sure you make your contract.

You are declaring 3NT and are grateful to get a spade lead. You beat the K with your ace and lay down the ♦J. LHO plays the K. Over to you.

T1: ♠2 - 4 - K - A
T2: ♦J - K - ?

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Posted 2005-June-08, 19:16

Quack, quack, quack

Duck the diamond, pray that diamonds aren't 5-0

5 diamonds+ 2 spades, + 1 heart + 1 club = 9......I think, but never know with all of this new Math that's going around these days.
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Posted 2005-June-09, 03:13

Echognome, on Jun 9 2005, 01:38 PM, said:

Scoring: IMP

3♦ - 3NT
All Pass


I didn't have this exact problem tonight, but a similar one.  I think it's an instructive hand in making sure you make your contract.

You are declaring 3NT and are grateful to get a spade lead.  You beat the K with your ace and lay down the ♦J.  LHO plays the K.  Over to you.

T1: ♠2 - 4 - K - A
T2: ♦J - K - ?

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Posted 2005-June-09, 04:00

I think the title of the problem gives the solution away. It's more interesting of course, at matchpoints.
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Posted 2005-June-09, 05:42

Hehe Mark. I think the fact that it's posed as a problem gives it away. What I hope the BIL learn from it is WHY it's a problem.
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Posted 2005-June-09, 05:55

New math?
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Posted 2005-June-09, 07:56

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Posted 2005-June-09, 08:33

If they didn't cover you would had to overtake with ♦Q to try a ♥ finese that might save an undertrick.
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Posted 2005-June-09, 19:40

LHO had K98x and RHO had x. If you take the ace you limit your diamond tricks to 3 and your contract goes down.

In the actual hand I had another entry to dummy (that LHO didn't know was a certain entry), so I just chuckled and took the ace and cleared the suit. I said after the hand "nice try."
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Posted 2005-June-09, 20:23

why was it a nice try. He totally blew it if you had stiff J or Jx(with no entry in dummy). Silly cover.
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Posted 2005-June-10, 07:50

He blew nothing if declarer has ♦Jx and wins in dummy, one trick and a half if he has ♦J stiff, but gained 3 possible tricks if declarer holds ♦Jxx.
All in all its just a bad play but I've seen worse.
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Posted 2005-June-10, 10:06

Jlall, on Jun 9 2005, 09:23 PM, said:

why was it a nice try. He totally blew it if you had stiff J or Jx(with no entry in dummy). Silly cover.

I might have had a hint of sarcasm in my voice when I said it.
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