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Posted 2019-May-28, 14:01


There was a deal similar to this in the Swiss Teams
at the EBU Spring Bank Holiday Congress (Stratford-Upon-Avon).
You, South, declare 3N.
Hit next to reveal dummy and the opening lead of Q.
Plan the play.
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Posted 2019-May-31, 05:48

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Posted 2019-May-31, 06:43

I would try for a practical chance (ie a chance w/o hoping against hope for a really outlandish card holding. I would start by assuming lho led a stiff diamond and held Qxxx hearts and the spade ace. Assuming a singleton dia is hardly off the wall as rho passed 2d x when they had a easy 2h bid asking lho to bid their major (I assume or at least xx to accomplish the same thing).
trick 1 win dia ace (not risking overtake and them running 6 spade tricks)
trick 2/3/4/5 clubs who knows maybe discards will be difficult for opps (not likely)
trick 6 heart K at the very least I now have book so I am no worse off then I would have been ducking a dia at trick 1 and suffering a 6 card spade switch.
trick 7 heart to J. the intention is to throw lho in with their presumed 4th heart so they have to give us a spade trick for number 9.

I do not expect this to work but I am in a poor overbid contract that is lucky to have any play at all.
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Posted 2019-May-31, 08:00

A boardl similar to this was dealt in the Swiss Teams at the EBU Spring Bank Holiday Congress (Stratford-Upon-Avon).
You, South, declare 3N.on the lead of Q.

I like Gsze's line, which has practical chances. As Gsze says, whatever your plan, it can't do much harm to win A and cash 4 s.. In the layout on the left, LHO is triple-squeezed....
-- A discard gives you 4 tricks.
-- A discard allows you to end-play LHO with 4 rounds of s.
-- So LHO must discard 3 s but, in layouts like this, a 1-suit squeeze operates.
-- -- If LHO keeps 3 top s, you exit in s and wait for a trick.
-- -- if LHO keeps AQ6, say, then when RHO leads a , you cover to develop a trick.

The 7 and T operate as, what I call, pivots.
They perform a kind of blocking function.

Unfortunately, in real-life, there was no miracle, so the contract failed. :(

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