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General Bridge Discussion => Interesting Play Hands => Topic started by: zdedo on February 12, 2018, 09:00:29 AM

Title: makes if I played in !C 1st??!
Post by: zdedo on February 12, 2018, 09:00:29 AM

couldn't see this line if I played at trick 6 before continuing in  !D I can make!
what is the expert say on this and the bidding also?
Thanks
 http://tinyurl.com/yd4zjl66 (http://tinyurl.com/yd4zjl66)

Title: Re: makes if I played in !C 1st??!
Post by: brian_m on February 12, 2018, 01:04:12 PM

Quote from: zdedo on February 12, 2018, 09:00:29 AM

couldn't see this line if I played at trick 6 before continuing in  !D I can make!
what is the expert say on this and the bidding also?
Thanks
 http://tinyurl.com/yd4zjl66 (http://tinyurl.com/yd4zjl66)

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I can offer a couple of comments.

You ended up in the best contract. It's all too easy to be losing a  !S, a  !H and a  !C in 5 !C. If you get a (most likely) 3-2 break in  !S, you're home in 4 !S, same three losers.

Your problem is not planning through the hand, I think. You have exactly two certain entries to your hand without ruffing your  !D winners. After East shows out, you KNOW that you're going to lose a  !H and two  !S, so you can't afford to lose another  !C.

You cannot make the contract unless West is kind enough to kill his partner's club winner with one of his trumps (try it... lead your  !C at trick 6, but West must discard rather than ruff), so you go down anyway against decent defence, but locking yourself on table as you did is absolutely a 0% line. Well, OK, not 0%, you're OK if you drop a singleton  !C K with the  !C A.  ::)

So yes, try the  !C finesse at trick 6, and hope that West makes a (silly!) mistake by ruffing, but the contract should go down against competent defenders as the cards lie.