North Dealer
Both Vuln.
North
A 10 4
K Q 10 7 6
A 6
10 6 5
South
K 9 8 2
A 4
J 10 5
K 9 3 2
Sunday, 28 October 2012
3NTx
Now for a really tricky hand. You open the North cards below 1, South responds 1 and after a mildly aggressive 2–2NT–3NT continuation East finds the double card!
West leads the heart three and since I'm in generous mood I'll give you the whole hand if you want it too. See if you can make 3NTx. Click the link below to immediately see the full hand. If you make it even seeing all the hands then I'm impressed.
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Tha hand is tough!
ReplyDeleteWin 2 hearts and play a club.
ReplyDelete1. If East plays the jack, win the king and throw East back in with a club.
a) If East gives you a heart or a diamond trick as your eighth trick, you can build a second club trick as your ninth.
b) If East gives you a spade to leave you bereft of entries to hand, win three spades and a heart and throw East in with a heart. East has to give you 2 diamond tricks in the end.
2. If East plays the ace of clubs,
a) If East then gives you a trick, you can easily establish the ninth trick in clubs.
b) Finally, East may play back the jack of clubs. Duck this.
(i) If West ducks this, we transpose back in (a).
(ii) If West overtakes and returns a non-diamond, we have 8 tricks and can endplay East in diamonds for the ninth.
(iii) If West overtakes and returns a diamond, duck it to East's Queen. Then take 2 hearts (pitching a spade), a diamond and two clubs (pitching a heart). You need 3 tricks in the four-card ending - luckily West has been squeezed down to 3 spades and the king of diamonds. Throw West in with the king of diamonds and claim.
Phew!
Erm I have made an error:
Delete(i) If the jack of clubs holds, East must give you a trick. If it is not in diamonds then we can endplay East in diamonds as usual. If it is in diamonds, we can establish a ninth trick in spades (by leading low from dummy).
Basically once you have eight tops, you can probably create the ninth.
DeleteVery close... but... I fear that after you duck the club jack West might sneakily overtake and play a diamond through. This sets up defence's three diamonds before you've set up your third spade. :)
DeleteAh, I'm sorry, this was wrong above.
DeleteSo, in (iii) you talk of taking 2 hearts (when you've already taken 2 hearts) but your line does work, even with West overtaking the club queen, if you cash the third heart and then cash the two clubs you have in hand. West gets squeezed and you throw them in with the diamond king.
However, I'm afraid that line 1(b) doesn't work. After being thrown in with the club ace East returns the spade queen (only card!). Following your line to the end West keeps the CQ, DKx. East then at trick 11 plays the DQ. Ducking it is no good as then table is forced to give West trick 13 in clubs.
So the answer is that the only way to make it on this hand is as follows:
ReplyDelete(i) Start playing low of table and winning the heart ace. Then you must finesse a spade around to East's Queen at trick two. When East returns Ace and another club you must duck the jack. On the later run of the spades crossing back to the club king and cashing the final spade East gets squeezed into either throwing a heart before dummy has used its entry in diamonds. Or East ptiches too many diamonds and you can play two rounds of diamonds and East is endplayed in hearts!
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