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DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
Entries are declarer’s means of placing the lead where he wants it. Proper entry management may be crucial.
Today’s declarer gave his game a straightforward play. He took the top spades, ruffed his last spade in dummy, cashed the king of trumps and finessed with the jack. West won and exited with a trump. South next led a diamond to dummy’s ace and back to his queen. He lost two diamonds and a club. Down one.
South does best to set up dummy’s clubs but must time the use of his entries. He wins the first spade with the king and leads the king of clubs. Say East wins and leads the jack of diamonds: three, six, ace. South then takes the queen 24 27 28 29 31 34 35 36 38 39 41 Foes of robbers Many a reggae artist
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South can then ruff his last spade in dummy and pitch a diamond on the good club. He loses only three tricks in all.
DAILY QUESTION:
You hold: ♠ A3 ♥ K64
◆ A85 ♣ 86432.Your partner opens one spade, you respond two clubs, he rebids two spades and you try 2NT. Partner next bids three hearts. What do you say?
ANSWER: Partner suggests six spades, four hearts and minimum values. If he had a hand such as K 87642,AQ107,2,AK, his second bid would have been two hearts. You would 43 Sudden pull 45 Small skullcap 46 Connect to an
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