| + | West |
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J 5 |
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10 7 5 |
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A 9 7 5 |
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K Q 8 5 |
| North |
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10 9 7 4 2 |
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Q 8 4 |
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J 6 4 |
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A 4 |
| + | East |
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8 |
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9 6 3 2 |
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K 10 8 |
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J 10 7 6 2 |
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Bridge Deal
from the deal bank
You:
South
Dealer:
South
Vulnerability: none
Source:
Bill Ravetz 82111
For use by: Intermediate
Click on "q1" below to see question 1, and on "A1" to see the answer.
- Question
1
The bidding ended at 4 Spades, and you're the declarer.
9 tricks are certain (5 Spades, 3 Hearts and a club). You've got one loser in clubs, so the job is to make sure you only lose 2 diamond tricks. How are you going to do it?
- Question
1
The bidding ended at 4 Spades, and you're the declarer.
9 tricks are certain (5 Spades, 3 Hearts and a club). You've got one loser in clubs, so the job is to make sure you only lose 2 diamond tricks. How are you going to do it?
Answer
You can make the contract certain by ensuring that they lead diamonds, not you.
- Question
2
How can you make it certain they will lead diamonds?
- Question
2
How can you make it certain they will lead diamonds?
Answer
Simple: remove all the other suits in your hands, then give them the lead.....- Step one; win the opening trick after they lead the king of clubs
- Then draw trumps
- Then remove all the other suits:
- play Hearts 3 times;
- throw the lead away with your last club (you were always guaranteed to lose that trick).
All the other suits are now stripped from your hands.
If they then lead a Heart, you will ruff it in one hand and discard a diamond from the other ("ruff and discard"), thus limiting your future diamond losses to two tricks. Job done
If instead they lead a diamond, you'll play second hand low, and assuming they play one of their two (Ace / King) diamond winners as the third card in the trick, you'll play 4th hand low as well. Now they only have one diamond winner remaining to cope with your Q and J. Job done.
Other people's bidding
To examine how other people might have bid, look inside box #1 in the right-hand column (>>>), by clicking on the pink "+ button".
The card play
To see a suggested Opening Lead, look inside box #3 on the right (>>>).
Then make a plan! Think for a bit about how you'd play this contract.
Planning questions
If box #4 is there for this deal (>>>), see how others might have planned the play...
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