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This hand cost us the win in our pairs event
W leads ♣6, plan the play, leads are A/2/4, carding is standard count
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Posted 2024-November-08, 04:02
This hand cost us the win in our pairs event
W leads ♣6, plan the play, leads are A/2/4, carding is standard count
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Posted 2024-November-09, 03:13
Really nobody wants to take a crack at this ?
The issue is that you are in 3N rather than 4♥, so you have to make the same number of tricks in NT.
There are ways of making 11 which will give you all the matchpoints, rather than the 10 I made which was 1/3 of them and emough to win comfortably.
The issue is that you are in 3N rather than 4♥, so you have to make the same number of tricks in NT.
There are ways of making 11 which will give you all the matchpoints, rather than the 10 I made which was 1/3 of them and emough to win comfortably.
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Posted 2024-November-11, 15:55
OK, it seems this has attracted no interest.
If you assume W has ♣Q976x(x) and ♠A, consider what happens when you cash 6 hearts, you can discard a spade and 2 diamonds, now what does E discard down to ? Must keep 2 spades and 2 clubs, or you can exit with a spade or overtake the club so can only keep 2 diamonds. Now cash 2 diamonds, and all they can do is keep 2 clubs and 2 spades. Come down to 2 clubs and 2 spades yourself, overtake the club K and exit a club and they have to give you a spade.
If you assume W has ♣Q976x(x) and ♠A, consider what happens when you cash 6 hearts, you can discard a spade and 2 diamonds, now what does E discard down to ? Must keep 2 spades and 2 clubs, or you can exit with a spade or overtake the club so can only keep 2 diamonds. Now cash 2 diamonds, and all they can do is keep 2 clubs and 2 spades. Come down to 2 clubs and 2 spades yourself, overtake the club K and exit a club and they have to give you a spade.
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Posted 2024-November-11, 16:51
Very sorry, only saw it now after a few busy days and time on BBO dedicated to following up previous posts and my own I/A thread.
Yes I agree that cashing 6 hearts is a sure route to 11, even assuming Defenders are on the ball.
Yes I agree that cashing 6 hearts is a sure route to 11, even assuming Defenders are on the ball.
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Posted 2024-November-12, 06:03
pescetom, on 2024-November-11, 16:51, said:
Very sorry, only saw it now after a few busy days and time on BBO dedicated to following up previous posts and my own I/A thread.
Yes I agree that cashing 6 hearts is a sure route to 11, even assuming Defenders are on the ball.
Yes I agree that cashing 6 hearts is a sure route to 11, even assuming Defenders are on the ball.
It is within the constraints of the signal for spades. The really annoying thing is that I could still have made it having cashed the K♣ too early so I couldn't overtake.
Imagine this 5 card ending:
You know W has ♠A and one more, ♦x, ♣Qx (yes alternatives exist, but this was the position I was in)
If W's other spade is the Q, you have to do what I did, play off 2 diamonds and run the ♠J which also works if the other is the 10. Unfortunately E had Q10, where the winning line is to play 3 rounds of diamonds, or cash one diamond and play a spade witholding the K.
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