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#1 Cyberyeti

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Posted 2013-June-23, 07:05

West leads a small spade, plan the play. I took my eye off the ball and misplayed this, as did the other declarer who was in it.

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#2 Antrax

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Posted 2013-June-23, 07:36

Is there a typo in the bidding, or should we really find a way to make 12 tricks on this hand?

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#3 Winstonm

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Posted 2013-June-23, 07:46

Win spade Ace, pitching a heart. Finesse the club Q. Cash club Ace. Lead low heart. Win any return, cash heart ace, cross to dummy in clubs and ruff a heart back to hand. If hearts are 3-3, cross to diamond king and pitch a diamond on the long heart winner. If this doesn't work, there is a remote chance of a squeeze but I wouldn't count on it.

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#4 Cyberyeti

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Posted 2013-June-23, 08:19

Winstonm, on 2013-June-23, 07:46, said:

Exactly, it really is that simple, the key is to pitch the heart not the diamond, I thought I might need the third heart for a squeeze so I could pitch dummy's hearts on the clubs, and there was no recovery from there.