[Shavit1]

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Opening lead CJ, both defenders follow to the first round of trump.
How can you make the contract safe against any layout?

[wanoff]

Shavit1, on 2015-August-08, 06:39, said:

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Opening lead: CJ.
How can you make the contract safe against any layout?

Don't think you can, probably going off 1 time in 100.

[WesleyC]

If everyone follows to the first trump i'm home, do they?

[FrancesHinden]

If hearts are not 4-0 this is a very easy hand, which comes straight out of a textbook introduction to endplays.
Why have you posted it? Do not not see how to make it - in which case someone will happily explain?

[Shavit1]

WesleyC, on 2015-August-08, 08:27, said:

If everyone follows to the first trump i'm home, do they?

Trumps are not 4-0

[lbellicaud]

3 round of trump, then KQ of club while discarding one diamond, and then A of diamond and queen, 100% contract

[wank]

welcome to the forum, but i'm afraid you misfiled this thread. it's not even close to being an expert hand.

[lbellicaud]

wank, on 2015-August-09, 04:16, said:

welcome to the forum, but i'm afraid you misfiled this thread. it's not even close to being an expert hand.

That's right

[PhilKing]

Most BBO "experts" would not find the safe line.

It's not OP's fault the majority on the forum are real experts!

[Shavit1]

wank, on 2015-August-09, 04:16, said:

welcome to the forum, but i'm afraid you misfiled this thread. it's not even close to being an expert hand.

Thank you! Have just noticed that this is an Expert-class forum. You may, however, treat the hand as an appetizer

[mikeh]

Shavit1, on 2015-August-09, 05:31, said:

Thank you! Have just noticed that this is an Expert-class forum. You may, however, treat the hand as an appetizer

Welcome to the forums.

Please note that this is not usually a good place to try to show off your book knowledge by posing as problems fairly basic play issues. We have a number of posters here who are superb declarers, and many more who are going to find these kinds of problems to be trivial. Post them, if you want, in the Novice area or maybe, if they are more challenging, in the I/A area, but this one, and the other one you have currently, are definitely not remotely expert level nor are they 'interesting' in the sense of showing most of us something that piques our interest.

Play problems can be lots of fun and very challenging, but the types of hands that are found in most bridge texts (omitting some of the more esoteric hands in Adventures in Card Play) are too easy for this crowd.

At the risk of falling into the same sort of trap I will now post a hand given to me by a very strong player yesterday. At the dinner table I got it wrong. It is from actual play, not a book. Hopefully that will give you some idea of the types of play problems that will engage more of us.