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#1 User is offline   Deanrover 

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Posted 2005-July-15, 12:34

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Long auction, opponents silent, you wind up in 6 ♣, West leading ♥Q. What is your play?


There was an article about this in last Saturday's Daily Telegraph. Click here to view it. All rights belong to Daily Telegraph plc. yada yada.
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Posted 2005-July-15, 13:03

To the article perhaps, but not to the hand which is public domain.

In a trump contract, count your losers. Here you have two, one of which you will discard on the ♦A. Next hand? Not so fast! Gee this was too easy, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

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  Posted 2005-July-15, 13:51

My first thought is, if LHO has 4 trumps the hand is likely dead, so I need to assume one of two things:

A. Trumps are 3-2. If life was this great, win the first heart, play A of diamonds discarding a heart, then 3 rounds of spades, ruffing. Then K of hearts, diamond ruff, play trumps from top.

Since this is a hand Fred played tho......

I bet trumps are 4-1 with RHO having the long trumps. So, AH, AD discarding a heart, QC, diamond ruff, assuming diamonds aren't just whacky, play high trump finding out the bad news. Then, KH, and three rounds of spades. We should get some sort of trump coup.

Someone PLEASE give me coffee, this is too hard this early in the day.
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