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    From Dave Flower@DavJFlower@btinternet.com to rec.games.bridge on Wed Oct 2 08:25:33 2019
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    An interesting hand came up at Northampton last Monday.

    Matchpoints, dealer North, love all

    A K J 4 3
    J 8 5
    A 10 7 3
    A

    10 6
    K Q 9 7 3
    9 5
    K 7 5 2

    Opening lead CJ

    How d you play it ?

    David Flower
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  • From ais523@ais523@nethack4.org to rec.games.bridge on Wed Oct 2 16:15:58 2019
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    Dave Flower wrote:
    An interesting hand came up at Northampton last Monday.

    Matchpoints, dealer North, love all

    A K J 4 3
    J 8 5
    A 10 7 3
    A

    10 6
    K Q 9 7 3
    9 5
    K 7 5 2

    Opening lead CJ

    How d you play it ?

    What contract? It seems at least plausible to reach either notrumps or
    hearts on those hands.
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  • From Dave Flower@DavJFlower@btinternet.com to rec.games.bridge on Wed Oct 2 14:26:26 2019
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    On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 5:16:00 PM UTC+1, ais523 wrote:
    Dave Flower wrote:
    An interesting hand came up at Northampton last Monday.

    Matchpoints, dealer North, love all

    A K J 4 3
    J 8 5
    A 10 7 3
    A

    10 6
    K Q 9 7 3
    9 5
    K 7 5 2

    1S pass 2H pass
    4H pass pass pass

    Opening lead CJ

    How d you play it ?

    What contract? It seems at least plausible to reach either notrumps or
    hearts on those hands.

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    ais523

    Apologies

    David Flower
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  • From ais523@ais523@nethack4.org to rec.games.bridge on Thu Oct 3 03:47:09 2019
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    Dave Flower wrote:
    Dave Flower wrote:
    An interesting hand came up at Northampton last Monday.

    Matchpoints, dealer North, love all

    A K J 4 3
    J 8 5
    A 10 7 3
    A

    10 6
    K Q 9 7 3
    9 5
    K 7 5 2

    1S pass 2H pass
    4H pass pass pass

    Opening lead CJ

    My thoughts on this (which might be completely wrong!): win CA
    (obviously), cash SAK; regardless of whether or not the Queen drops,
    lead S3; if East shows out, ruff with the lowest heart that wins the
    trick; if East had a spade left, ruff with H7. If that gets me into
    hand, I cash CK discarding D3 and ruff a club low. Then lead another
    low spade, planning to ruff high; if I'm allowed, I'll ruff a club
    with the HJ, and if the opponents take the HA and lead a trump back in
    order to stop the cross-ruff, I have a tenace around the HT in both
    hands (J8 in duummy, Q9 in hand), so will end up with just one trump
    loser. If I need to discard (e.g. if E takes the HA early), I discard
    a diamond.

    This line seems capable of 12 tricks if everything goes well, but 11 is
    more likely; lower amounts seem possible but less likely. (It's
    matchpoints, and 4H looks like a normal contract, so a gamble for an
    overtrick is worthwhile as long as it's more likely to help than hurt.
    I wouldn't expect to go down anyway on this line, though.)

    The main line I'm actually worried about is the opponents taking HA and
    leading a diamond at an inconvenient moment, which might lead to me
    being stuck in hand (rather than dummy). As I want to be able to at
    least threaten a cross-ruff, I can't draw trumps early, which means that
    even in the likely case where the SQ is ruffed out, I may not have an opportunity to cash the SJ without it being ruffed.
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    ais523
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