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DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
The ABCs of good dummy play: learning to handle individual suit combinations correctly. For example, with Q-10 opposite A-K-4-3-2, declarer’s percentage play for five tricks is a finesse with the 10.
At today’s 3NT, declarer starts with eight top tricks. The clubs will break 3-3 only a little more than a third of the time — no doubt less than that when West has led a club — so declarer would like a second diamond trick. If he wins the first club in dummy and leads a diamond to his queen, he goes down. West takes the king, and East still has a double stopper in the suit.
But declarer should be in no hurry to finesse. At Trick Two he can play a low Caviar
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South wins the next trick and cashes the ace of diamonds. The king happens to fall, so he is safe. If instead both defenders played low, South would lead a heart to dummy to return a third diamond toward his queen. He would get two diamond tricks whenever the lie of the cards permitted.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ K65 ♥ K62 ◆ 75 3 ♣ A Q 4 2. Both sides vulnerable. The dealer, at your left, opens three spades. Your partner doubles, and the next player passes. What do you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s double is for takeout and promises a hand worth 18 points or more. To pass for penalty 47 48 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 Facebook reversal Word in Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy “My man!” Cross a stream, perhaps English : John :: Slavic : __ Girasol, e.g. Sci-fi character voiced by Frank Oz Expel strongly Green moisture might be right, but beating three spades doubled more than one trick (or at all) could be a nervous affair. Bid 3NT.