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#1 User is offline   kenrexford 

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Posted 2008-June-08, 20:58



South plays 6♥. The auction was 6♥-P-P-P. 6♥ showed this exact hand. It does not come up that often, but boy was it nice here.

The lead is a diamond.

You are so excited about your 6♥ convention finally coming up, and hitting pay dirt, that you yell out, "I claim! Making!" You then have a sinking feeling.

You do not care about overtricks, because this is IMPs. However, down one would be devastating. So, can you back up your claim and state a line where 6♥ cannot possibly fail?
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Posted 2008-June-09, 03:29

This is one of the tea-towel hands.
In fact I even think it's been given on the BBO forums before now...
If you do a search you can probably find it again!
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Posted 2008-June-09, 04:18

I have to draw trumps in case clubs are 0-4 and hearts 4-0. This leaves me with only one trump which I must use for ruffing a diamond after I lose a club trick. So I have no entries to the hand, other than the second diamond ruff.

I have to unblock ♣10 on the 4th trump. Then I play clubs. East must refuse to win the 3rd club, So if clubs are 0-4 and trumps 4-0 it looks pretty hopeless. I must be missing something.
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Posted 2008-June-09, 04:53

Search for tea-towel Helene.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-June-09, 06:45

kenrexford, on Jun 8 2008, 09:58 PM, said:

South plays 6♥. The auction was 6♥-P-P-P. 6♥ showed this exact hand. It does not come up that often, but boy was it nice here. The lead is a diamond. You are so excited about your 6♥ convention finally coming up, and hitting pay dirt, that you yell out, "I claim! Making!" You then have a sinking feeling.

You do not care about overtricks, because this is IMPs. However, down one would be devastating. So, can you back up your claim and state a line where 6♥ cannot possibly fail?

Like Helene, I was ready to bet on the defence; but shamed by Frances, I eventually stumbled on the solution :P
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Posted 2008-June-09, 12:22

Good problem!
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Posted 2008-June-09, 15:20

Only saw it because it is a problem, even though it is not objectively hard. Nice hand.
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