Timeline for Bridge auction and play with a 5521 hand opposite 1255
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 14:28 | comment | added | Joe | Double dummy, sure, but I don't think you do that in real play (and the question is not about double dummy play). | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 22:07 | comment | added | Forget I was ever here | @Joe: No. Double Dummy is only 9 tricks for NS, so let's get those. Win heart return; cross to CA; rough small club; cross to DA; win CK; rough small club; cash SA & SK and exit small Spade with 8 tricks in and Heart A in hand for #9. Down 1, the double dummy result. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 21:16 | comment | added | Joe | West's best play is a low heart, seems to me, which takes away the ruff in dummy and gives them a pretty straightforward route to 4 tricks (heart, diamond, two more black suit tricks). You need that ruff in dummy for transportation to try and develop the Qd as a trick (which you can). In fact, West likely gets a second heart trick - you're forced to win with the 8 after the lead, which means West has J6 around your A9, and you can't really do a ruffing finesse here, or at least not more than one, so you will likely lose a second heart as well - for down 2 or 3. | |
| Oct 12, 2019 at 9:37 | history | answered | Forget I was ever here | CC BY-SA 4.0 |