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#1 User is offline   Trumpace 

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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:21

Scoring: Rubber

Lead ♥5


You are South and have reached a contract of 6♥ (Please don't ask about the bidding)

You get a lead of ♥5.

Plan the Play.
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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:26

Pray that West led from Jx, take the first trick with the 9♥, cash AK♣ and claim B)

or East has ♥J3, play 9 and when east puts up the J, win in hand, return to table with ♥, cash AK♣...
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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:35

Trumpace, on Jun 22 2007, 03:21 PM, said:

Dealer: South
Vul: None
Scoring: Rubber
♠ J92
♥ 94
♦ 842
♣ AK876
♠ KT3
♥ AKQT8762
♦ AK
♣  
Lead ♥5


You are South and have reached a contract of 6♥ (Please don't ask about the bidding)

You get a lead of ♥5.

Plan the Play.


Of course, Kathryn has good suggestions, but if you manage to create an entry to dummy, then there is no problem. B)

I would normally not expect the heart 9 to hold if you play it, however since we do have 10 hearts, it is probably best to play small from dummy at trick one hoping for a stiff J. Even if the J is played on your right, all is not lost.

I'm pretty sure you will make this on a psuedo-squeeze. Especially if you have not indicated your club void and spade holdings in the auction.

Cash all the hearts but one, followed by the AK♦. You will be down to four cards.

Your hand will be K10x of spades and the last trump, dummy will be AK8♣ and the 8 of diamonds (having pitched all of dummies spades). By now you should have a pretty good idea of both where the spade Ace is and whether or not it has been blanked. If you know it has been blanked, lead a small spade, if you dont think it has been or are unsure about it, play the spade K. It is practically assured that the AQ will both fall on this trick or that the hand winning the spade A will have to lead a club to dummy.

There may be another legitimate line....but it won't be as much fun. :)
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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:37

unless the opponents are able to count to 12 in which case they will realize that unless you have a club void you have 12 tricks.

Anyways I think the 99 % line is best
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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:39

Spoiler

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Posted 2007-June-22, 14:56

Ok, I admit it. I didnt look at the spots. B)
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Posted 2007-June-22, 15:03

Noble's right.
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Posted 2007-June-22, 20:23

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bid_em_up Posted on Jun 22 2007, 03:56 PM
  Ok, I admit it. I didnt look at the spots. 
 


moi aussi - easy to miss!

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Posted 2007-June-22, 20:43

I think that my favorite part about the mystery of how to make 6♥ is that Apollo81 was kind enough to keep this puzzler, this wretched mind-bender, a pleasure for each of us to figure out for ourselves. No spoilers here!
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Posted 2007-June-22, 21:37

Spoilers! ppffft this IS the B/I forum :D
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Posted 2007-June-23, 06:11

jillybean2, on Jun 22 2007, 10:37 PM, said:

Spoilers! ppffft this IS the B/I forum :P

Doh! Caught again!
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Posted 2007-June-23, 12:02

I missed the spots also untill I read Kathryn's post, well done! :P
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Posted 2007-June-25, 13:01

I'll confess, the solution was the VERY last thing I looked at. :)
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

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rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
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Posted 2007-June-25, 15:15

Fluffy, on Jun 23 2007, 11:02 AM, said:

I missed the spots also untill I read Kathryn's post, well done! :)

pfffft 'experts' :P
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Posted 2007-June-29, 15:27

Well done jillybean (and others).

In case people are wondering, this is not a "made up" hand. This actually came up at the table and the winning play was found!
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