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Conference turris::bridge

Title:	The Game of Bridge

Moderator:	COLLIS::JACKSON

Created:	Thu Oct 30 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1969
Total number of notes:	14668

1946.0. "One that shouldn't have got away" by SUBSYS::SENGUPTA (Shekhar Sengupta DTN 237-6785) Fri Mar 07 1997 11:02

Here's a hand from last night, in which I found the only way to go down
after a favorable lead. I was the dealer, with our side vul. Playing
Blue Team Club (strong club, 4 card majors) I open 1H in the South seat

	S KQ5
	H AQT8
	D T7542
	C 8

The bidding proceeds:

South 	West	North	East
1H	P	2C(1)	Dbl	(1) Could be as short as 2 in preparation
P	2S	6H	Dbl	    for a game forcing reverse by responder
AP				    

West leads a spade and I breathe a sigh of relief as dummy hits with:

	S A
	H KJ752
	D QJ2
	C AQ97

Now what?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1946.1	take your pitches, concede D...	GAAS::BRAUCHER	And nothing else matters	`Fri Mar 07 1997 11:17`	9
	I don't think anybody has 7 or more spades. So I start SA, H10, SKQ pitching diamonds, DQ to them. Obviously, unless trumps 4-0 I'm cold then if diamonds are 3-2. On a club return, I would have to refuse the finesse. Even if diamonds are 4-1, I'm OK if the club king is tripleton. The main point is that your chances are worse drawing trumps immediately. bb
1946.2	Make opps lead something	DAVIDB::DMILLER	This bug fix broke what???????	`Fri Mar 07 1997 12:06`	5
	SA, CA, C-ruff, S-KQ pitching diamonds. Exit with DQ and see what opps do. I'm not sure how many club ruffs I need, as I may need to play this as a dummy reversal. So I don't draw any trump. -Dave
1946.3	Agree with .1	CADSYS::GROSS	The bug stops here	`Fri Mar 07 1997 15:05`	11
	You have 3 spade tricks, 1 club, and 5 hearts in hand. If you plan to ruff clubs for the extra 3 tricks you need 3 club ruffs in dummy and you must cross-ruff to get the necessary entries. The problem is West is threatening to overruff a diamond. West didn't lead a diamond, so let's assume they split 3-2. The cross-ruff line won't work unless East has the singleton 9S because West will overruff. At first glance I was inclined to agree with DM, but after this analysis, I agree with bb. Dave
1946.4	The full hand	SUBSYS::SENGUPTA	Shekhar Sengupta DTN 237-6785	`Wed Mar 12 1997 13:45`	26
	All of you who chose not to draw 2 rounds of trumps made the slam (sigh!). The only excuse I have, for not finding the right line was that the director was breathing down my neck to finish the hand. Once I drew 2 rounds of trumps, I was doomed when the Diamonds did not break. Could someone educate me about the probability of finding singletons in the other two hands, once you and partner both have singletons? (Dummy) S A H KJ752 D QJ2 C AQ97 S 9863 S JT742 H 964 H 3 D 6 D AK98 C JT532 C K64 (Declarer) S KQ5 H AQT8 D T7542 C 8 Opening lead: S 9