Hand of the week commencing Sunday 14th January 2007
West
leads a club which East wins with the Ace. He then cashes Ace of Diamonds before
switching to a Heart plan your play.
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K
8 7
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J 5 4 3 |
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K
Q 5 |
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Q J 7 6 5 |
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1NT |
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2NT |
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You
have now lost 2 tricks and everything rests on the play of the trump suit. When
you have KXX opposite QXXXX
you now have to make a decision to play one of your 2 esteemed opponents
for precisely a doubleton Ace. Which opponent is more likely to have the
doubleton Ace here ? Neither opponent competed, which suggests the points are
likely to be evenly distributed. East has already turned up with 2 Aces (8
points) so you decide to play West for the missing Doubleton Ace of trumps. You
must therefore win third trick in hand and play a low trump towards dummy’s
King. West cannot afford to hop up with the Ace since that will give declarer an
easy run. Once your King wins, play a low trump from dummy and low one
from hand and pray that West started with Doubleton Ace. His Ace now
“falls on air”. Once you regain the lead you draw the
last trump and claim. You now make 4 trumps 5 Hearts and
a Diamond losing just the 3 Aces.