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#1 User is offline   phil_20686 

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Posted 2014-August-01, 06:37



You get a spade lead, so you can obviously make if you bring in the club suit, but a team mate played for an extra chance by playing a heart at trick two. Another spade was played, and then another heart. East now cashed the third round of hearts (west discarding a diamond) and played the diamond Q.

What now?
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Posted 2014-August-02, 02:15

Maybe I've not had enough sleep, because I must be missing something.
If the club finesse is right, I need take it now ( I can duck if West covers the 10 with the king) and if the 10 holds I can play a heart to guarantee 9 tricks.
If the club finesse is wrong, I only seem to have 7 tricks (3+1+2+1). If the club is wrong I always had 5 losers anyway.
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Posted 2014-August-02, 02:42

Stamina is a limited asset: this is the sort of hand I don't make heavy weather out of. Just finesse straight away.
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Posted 2014-August-06, 07:07

View PostFrancesHinden, on 2014-August-02, 02:15, said:

Maybe I've not had enough sleep, because I must be missing something.
If the club finesse is right, I need take it now ( I can duck if West covers the 10 with the king) and if the 10 holds I can play a heart to guarantee 9 tricks.
If the club finesse is wrong, I only seem to have 7 tricks (3+1+2+1). If the club is wrong I always had 5 losers anyway.


Yes this was the winning line. Declarer did not spot that he could duck the ten of clubs if lho covered it.

The full deal was:



instead at this point declarer continued hearts to set up his heart tric, and the defence played a diamond which you are forced to win. The position is now:



So if declarer cashes both his major suit winners he single suit squeezes dummy, so he ended up not cashing his fifth heart after all. :)
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Posted 2014-August-07, 12:50

View Postwhereagles, on 2014-August-02, 02:42, said:

Stamina is a limited asset: this is the sort of hand I don't make heavy weather out of. Just finesse straight away.


I think Phil posted the hand too late in the play. Playing a club at once goes off, they have five winners. This line generated 9 tricks on a layout where it was easy to go off.
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Posted 2014-August-07, 15:16

View PostFrancesHinden, on 2014-August-07, 12:50, said:

I think Phil posted the hand too late in the play. This line generated 9 tricks on a layout where it was easy to go off.


Post it any earlier and East doesn't get the chance to foolishly set up the 9th trick.
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Posted 2014-August-07, 23:41

misplaying for an extra chance i presume you mean.
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