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8s and 10s DO Count
| Posted on April 14, 2016 at 9:59 AM |
I played at the Fort Lauderdale Bridge Club yesterday, just
as I do every Tuesday when I am in town. My Tuesday partner is Missy.
I call her Missy because even though she is my age, she is so tiny (size 0)
that she looks like a 12-year-old. We were having a
pretty good game, judging by the early results on our Bridgemate device, when Ideal and Lovely came to the table. I picked
up my cards - they were awful: ♠98543 ♥T82 ♦J86 ♣65 If Missy opened 1NT I would transfer to
spades and then pass. Otherwise I’m
bidding green cards all the way. Missy was
dealer and opened 1♦.
My RHO overcalled 1NT. Boy, was I
glad. I just hoped Missy wouldn’t make a
re-opening double. LHO bid 2♣ (Stayman) and the opponents quickly reached
3NT so I was on lead. As a rule, when Opponent is prepared to
handle my partner’s suit I don’t always lead it. This is especially true if I have a better
lead, one which will get tricks for our side.
On this deal, I have nothing. I
don’t expect to win a trick. Even though
I have 5 spades, I don’t have entries and the ♠9 is a very
long-shot winner. I decided to lead my
partner’s suit (the suit Declarer is known to have) and not finesse her out of
an important card in a different suit. Having decided to lead a diamond, which
one should I choose? I never lead a
singleton against notrump, not even in my partner’s suit, so the lead of the Jack
will tell her that I have at least two.
Declarer will also assume that I have two diamonds so a little
sneakiness is always a good thing. Here
was the whole hand (rotated for convenience): Ideal QJ76 ♥K43 ♦A9 ♣J743 Me Missy ♠98543 3NT
by S ♠KT2 ♥T82 ♥AJ6 ♦J86 Lead
= ♦J ♦T532 ♣65 ♣AT9 Lovely ♠A ♥Q975 ♦KQ74 ♣KQ92 Here’s
the auction: Missy Lovely Me Ideal 1♦ 1NT P 2♣ P 2♦ P 3NT Declarer
won ♦A in dummy and continued to play diamonds. She led the ♦9
from dummy, covered by my partner’s 10 and won in her hand with the Queen. She
now cashed ♠A and tried to reach
dummy with a heart. Missy won the ♥A and continued diamonds. Lovely “knew” I had only two diamonds as I started
with the Jack, so she played the ♦7,
beaten by my little 8. Wow! Whoever would have thought my hand would win
a trick? But we weren’t done yet. I had
to find another card to lead. I chose the
♠9, top of nothing as I did not want to
encourage my partner. Lovely called for dummy’s
Queen which was taken by Missy’s King.
She returned a spade which Lovely won in hand, but she still has to lose to the
♣Ace and she still hasn’t set up a heart
trick. In fact, she led towards her hand
and put in the ♥9
losing to my 10. Two tricks won by my
almost yarborough! Poor
Lovely! But what went wrong? Let’s count her tricks. On the diamond lead, she has 1♠ + 3♦.
These are sure tricks. She needs to establish 5 more. Where can she get them? If she knocks out ♣A then she has 2 more tricks, maybe 3 if
the suit splits 3-2 (it does). She can
also set up a second spade trick and a heart trick. After winning the first trick in dummy I
would play a spade to the Ace and then play K♣,
Q♣ and, if Missy holds up till the third round (you’ll see her 10 drop) you
will have established an entry to dummy via the ♣Jack.
Once in dummy, you can set up a spade trick. They can continue diamonds when
they win a trick but you still have time to establish your heart trick. It’s
certainly a tricky hand. Missy and I took
5 tricks. She won ♠K, ♥A
and ♣A.
I won ♦8 and ♥T.
Deep Finesse says that Declarer can take 10 tricks in Notrump, hearts or
diamonds. They can even make 5♣. I’m
just glad I didn’t have to play it. |
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