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12/31/2023

In a MP match, west opened 1D, North overcalled 1nt 15-18 and east raise 2D. The contract ended up in 4S by S.
SA was lead and shifted C6 ,3,Q and ace.
By the bidding, east must have nothing but raise with 5 diamond. So, We need West to have four H and 4 club for the squeeze.
Heart finesse to Q, ruff a heart. Cash SK, DA, SQ. Run the spade. On the last spade, West was squeezed in three suit. You hand's holding is S8(the card to be played), DQ, C752. Table: HAxx, CKx. West: HKJ, DK, CJ9.

12/23/2023

We are in 4H in a imp team game. SQ was lead. Should we play for 33 h fit or hj onside? Don't get distract by the HT, you do not need the h finesse. Win the lead, ruff a spade low. Cash HAK, DA. When DQ drop play D8 to T. If they ruff, they can get their spade and club tricks. we ruff the return afterward, draw the last trump and enjoy the diamonds. If they do not ruff, get back to your hand with diamond, draw a trump and run the diamond. They get their trick whenever they want. They score a diamond ruff, a c and a spade, 3 tricks in total. 4H=

12/15/2023

Playing MP games in a local club. Bidding: 1S-2H-3H-3N-4H
North leads CJ, claiming standard lead. Dummy got a 5card spade suit and can potentially discard two diamonds from my hand. If I take the club finesse trick one and it loses, diamond shift is automatic. As a spade trick has to be ducked when setting up the spade suit, we need to retain the diamond ace control before spade is developed. It works when spade break 4-2 with spade K onside or break 33. Also, two quick entry to dummy are needed, which are obviously the trumps. The last trump in dummy is need for ruffing the third club. So, we can only draw trump once. The plan is ready, the rest is easy. I called for CA trick 1. Draw a trump retaining in table. Small spade from dummy, which South played the K. I won the diamond return with Ace. SQ, trump to table, ruff a spade high. Trump to table, Spades discard both of my diamond. Lose a club and cross-ruff. 4H+1

10/01/2022

By the bidding, West had all the point obviously. This is a matchpoint game, you want as many tricks as you can. The diamond Q lead solve the first problem for you. You unblock CK. Played HK. How you discard when you play CA? You know after you play all your diamond. W will have to keep one spade honor and Kx in heart. You can throw him in with spade and he will have to play a heart for you to finesee. So you have to keep the spade and discard a h on your ck.

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01/25/2022

In a MP match, you are in 4H. When West leaded CA, you saw a shapeful dummy. How should the board be played?

01/02/2022

What would be your plan declaring 3NT vs S8 lead (Probably lead from MUD)?

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12/29/2021

W leaded CK then CK. What would be the best play?
(E-W play strong 1c precision system)

12/13/2021

12/08/2021

According to the bidding, East's hand is almost certainly 4-3-3-3. The lead of C3 goes to CK and CA. The first thought is to discard the heart loser by playing CT immediately. Is it the best play? Certainly not. Even counting the 2nd Club trick.,We still need one more trick for the contract. If CT was played first, defenders could play trump three times before you can ruff a diamond. As a result, playing diamond first is a better choice. East won the diamond and returned a Heart. Now, the diamond ruff is the final connection to dummy. CT must be played immediately to set up CT before defender can play diamonds forcing out your diamond ruff in dummy. The remaining is easy.

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12/02/2021

Sometime, we duck to stopped defender's communication. But, it is obviously wrong to duck in this hand. West opened 1H. It was shown in the bidding that both aces were with West. Just take the trick and drive out the CA. ST will be a second stopper.

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12/01/2021

Missing a trump Q, the bidding stopped at 6H. S9 was lead by East. It was originally an easy contract until West show out in H when HA was played after SA. Spade to King and a spade ruff which both followed. Diamond honors were played and East ruffed in the second round. A club was returned and diamonds keep running. Dummy is following East's discard, a club and a spade. After a marked heart finesse and a club ruff to North, East was trapped.

The reason playing a spade in the second trick? In some point of play, we will have to ruff C/S to hand and perform the trump coup. Playing spade early would be helpful to clarify whether S3 lead is a singleton / 4th best or from Qxx. It would hurt if SK got ruffed, but leading to SK prevents it from happening. Even if east over-ruffed your third spade, you will be able to finesse trump twice and enjoy your diamonds.

In the play, it was not good for East to discard a spade on the diamond. If the last spade in defender is not shown, declarer will have to guess whether he should ruff a club or spade in the 11th trick to perform trump coup. But of course, declarer should be able to figure out East is leading from 9753 instead of 753 since one would rather lead top/middle from three small cards.



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