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Posted 2012-October-05, 21:59



Thought this hand was an interesting play problem, took a while for me to decide on a line. LHO leads the ♠4 (2/4) to the K and A. You ruff, LHO playing the ♠ 5. The format was MP, but I'd solicit IMPs opinions too.

If you try to draw trumps starting in hand:
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then if you continue:
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If you try the club finesse at some point:
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I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2012-October-06, 11:20

My plan would be to play three rounds of trumps ending in dummy, then try a diamond to the queen. RHO is likely to have ♦K, given the vulnerable overcall on AKJxx. Later, I'd probably take a club finesse against RHO, planning a minor-suit squeeze against LHO. At IMPs I might leave clubs alone and play more diamonds, with the idea of using the fourth diamond to endplay LHO.

Having cashed ♥AK, I'm not very well placed when LHO shows out. I'd probably run ♦9 next.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2012-October-08, 06:10

On the actual hand the overcaller had AKJxx, J9xx, x, Qxx.

I tried a diamond towards dummy at trick 3, intending to play the A and immediately finesse in clubs. LHO split his diamond honors though, so I won, tried 2 rounds of trump, then hooked the club. Think I eventually lost a diamond and a trump but the contract came in. Wonder if aiming for 11 tricks is optimistic. On my line I guess I make 10 if I play both round suits correctly, but I was aiming to play RHO for the diamond K and club Q and could afford to do so if trumps were 3-2.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

East4Evil ♥ sohcahtoa 4ever!!!!!1
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