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Previous Puzzle Solved good fifth club. Making four.
Rose played well, but after Trick One, the defense was on life support. Cy must let dummy’s king of hearts win. If declarer leads another heart, Cy wins and leads a third heart, forcing dummy to ruff and removing a key entry prematurely. And no other line of play will help declarer.
DAILY QUESTION:
You hold: ♠ 1043 ♥ KQ ◆ A74 ♣ A 8 7 5 2. Your partner opens one club. The next player passes. What do you say?
You need to force in clubs, but many partnerships have no direct forcing raise in a minor. Some pairs use “inverted raises”: A raise to two is forcing, a jump-raise is weak. That is not an ideal method: Some
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