What is Your Verdict

Pages: Page 5 of 6

Dealer: South
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Rubber
  1. spadeQ 10 7
  2. heart9 6 2
  3. diamondA 10 7 4 3
  4. clubQ 5
  1. spade9 8 4 3
  2. heart5 3
  3. diamondQ 9
  4. club8 7 6 4 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 5 2 3 4
S 3 5 1 3 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK J
  2. heartK Q 10 8 7 4
  3. diamondJ 6 2
  4. club9 3

Contract: 3NT
Declarer: South
Lead: heart5
  1. spadeA 6 5 2
  2. heartA J
  3. diamondK 8 5
  4. clubA K J 10
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club
Pass 1diamond 1heart 2heart
Pass 3diamond Pass 3NT
Pass Pass Pass
Why not simply to play East for spadeK? Just play four round of clubs, pitching a diamond and a spade from dummy, and then diamondK, diamondA. East has to come down to five cards, of which only three can be red, so you throw him in with heart9 to give you two spade tricks. This fails if East has a singleton spadeK of course, but it also gains if West has found a bizarre play from three small hearts, when the recommended line also fails.

Assuming that East has spadeK then there might be a problem against an expert defender ..
Previous page Next page

This section is a placeholder for the forum. For the time being it will be a noshow class.