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Play 4S. [KQJTx AQx x J9xx] opposite [9xx x QJxxxx AKx]

#1 User is offline   WesleyC 

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Posted 2015-November-06, 00:31

Knockout IMPs!



West leads the 2. East wins with the A and returns the 7 as West follows with the 6.

Plan the play!
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Posted 2015-November-06, 02:44

View PostWesleyC, on 2015-November-06, 00:31, said:

Knockout IMPs!



West leads the 2. East wins with the A and returns the 7 as West follows with the 6.

Plan the play!

Unblock a spade honor from hand on the A.
Win second spade in hand and play 6.
If West goes in you are obviously in great shape with 3 entries to dummy.
For example if West continues spades, win in dummy and run a diamond honor. If East does not cover, discard.
Whenever diamonds are no worse than 4-2 you are home. with 3 diamond tricks.

So let's assume West plays low to the first diamond.
Now comes the critical play, duck in dummy!
If diamonds are 4-2 either way your best chance is that someone holds Kx or Ax.
Your intention is to ruff a second low diamond from dummy and if an honor drops give up a third diamond to the remaining honor.
If no honor drops hope diamonds are 3-3.
If West has ducked with AKxx the first diamond from hand look for different opponents. These ones are too tough.

How good is this line?
After the trump lead and continuation chances that there is a singleton or void in diamonds must be negligible.
Assuming West would not duck with AKxx the line is somewhere between 85 and 90% and this assumes West would lead a trump holding a small doubleton in diamonds.

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Posted 2015-November-07, 05:50

Wow, what a super line Rainer came up with :)
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Posted 2015-November-07, 06:47

I shouldn't post such easy hands in the Expert forum while Rainer is around :)
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Posted 2015-November-09, 12:15

View Postjodepp, on 2015-November-07, 05:50, said:

Wow, what a super line Rainer came up with :)


Clearly your new here. I cannot even remember the last time Rainer didn't come up with the best line.
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