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Answer to Hand of the week, week commencing

Sunday 25th July 2010

 

 

The opponents lead ¨K against your 7ª contract plan the play

 

 

 

(updated 22nd July 2010)

 

 

 

Dealer North

♠

A K Q

 

 

 

 

Both Vul

♥

A 10 9 5 4 2

 

 

 

 

 

♦

A 6

 

 

 

 

 

♣

8 4

 

 

 

♠

10 9 8

 

 

♠

J 6

 

♥

8 7 6

 

 

♥

K Q 3

 

♦

K Q J 10

 

 

♦

9 7 5 4 3

 

♣

10 7 6

 

 

♣

9 5 3

 

 

 

♠

7 5 4 3 2

 

 

 

 

 

♥

J

 

 

 

 

 

♦

8 2

 

 

 

 

 

♣

A K Q J 2

 

 

W

N

E

S

 

1©

NO

1ª

NO

3©

NO

4§

NO

4NT

NO

5ª

NO

7ª

NO

NO

NO

 

 

 

 

 

If you blindly go at this hand like a bull in a china shop you will go one off. Initially there are only 12 tricks  5 spades, 1 Heart. 1 Diamond and 5 Clubs. Therefore where is the 13th trick going to come from ?

Firslty in order to make this contract we are going to have to pray for a lucky layout of the opponents cards and assume trumps to be 3;2 and that the Hearts break favourably. If neither of these factors occurs then we have no chance. We will also need sufficient entries to get back to dummy.

Bearing all  this in mind, we win the first trick and set about making the Hearts good. We immediately ruff and Heart then go to dummy with a trump and ruff another Heart. Now that the Hearts have broken kindly (3:3) we proceed to draw trumps finishing in dummy. When the trumps break too we can now claim 5 trumps, 1 Heart, 3 established Hearts, 1 Diamond and 5 clubs (now that’s 2 overtricks  isn’t it J  ? )

 

  

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