A fascinating and intricate hand in terms of combining all the chances and switching from the dummy reversal to ruffing a club on table. I don’t know if I’d have got it right at the table but Clyde Love’s sage advice (albeit in a different context i.e. squeezes) applies here. If you get the chance to safely lose a trick early on that you have to lose, then do so. Today that calls for ducking a club.
Regards,
Iain
Bobby WolffOctober 20th, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Hi Iain,
Yes, our hand today likely exemplified a thorough knowledge of declarer’s play at its finest. Show me that player and then be rest assured you’ve found the consummate
expert.
As always, much thanks for your modest comment, but one which echoes through the mountainside, and rattles through the dell.
Finally, yes, it is often the winning line of play especially on difficult declarer play, to lose a trick or tricks he or she can afford to lose first, then creating the ability to garner the maximum number of them next by usually either creating a live squeeze opportunity or sometimes even a “lucky” combination of cards held by the opponents, on this hand finding one opponent holding KQ doubleton in clubs.
Bobby WolffOctober 20th, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Hi Iain,
And my failing to mention, after winning the opening lead and giving up a club by, of course, leading a small one from dummy. Perhaps East may err if holding Kxxxx in clubs by rising, allowing his partner’s queen to fall on the next round. Yes, a very “lucky” (for declarer) combination, but one a superior declarer would benefit while others may not.
With bridge, specific card combinations vary, making it sometimes quite difficult to guess.
A V Ramana RaoOctober 20th, 2022 at 5:20 pm
Hi Dear Mr Wolff
Quite an instructive hand. And just in case east rises with club Kxxxx, Q from west would fall and even if west rises with Kxxx, west is squeezed in rounded suits unless east returns a club after winning K which would be most improbable and of course the hand cannot be made unless declarer leads a low club from table at T2.
Regards
Bobby WolffOctober 21st, 2022 at 1:34 am
Hi AVRR,
All of us should appreciate your post adding luster to today’s difficult, but instructive hand.
It is always good fortune for you to first, involve yourself, and then corroborate
the play, with special emphasis on the defense. Thanks for your tireless and very loyal cooperation.
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Hi Bobby,
A fascinating and intricate hand in terms of combining all the chances and switching from the dummy reversal to ruffing a club on table. I don’t know if I’d have got it right at the table but Clyde Love’s sage advice (albeit in a different context i.e. squeezes) applies here. If you get the chance to safely lose a trick early on that you have to lose, then do so. Today that calls for ducking a club.
Regards,
Iain
Hi Iain,
Yes, our hand today likely exemplified a thorough knowledge of declarer’s play at its finest. Show me that player and then be rest assured you’ve found the consummate
expert.
As always, much thanks for your modest comment, but one which echoes through the mountainside, and rattles through the dell.
Finally, yes, it is often the winning line of play especially on difficult declarer play, to lose a trick or tricks he or she can afford to lose first, then creating the ability to garner the maximum number of them next by usually either creating a live squeeze opportunity or sometimes even a “lucky” combination of cards held by the opponents, on this hand finding one opponent holding KQ doubleton in clubs.
Hi Iain,
And my failing to mention, after winning the opening lead and giving up a club by, of course, leading a small one from dummy. Perhaps East may err if holding Kxxxx in clubs by rising, allowing his partner’s queen to fall on the next round. Yes, a very “lucky” (for declarer) combination, but one a superior declarer would benefit while others may not.
With bridge, specific card combinations vary, making it sometimes quite difficult to guess.
Hi Dear Mr Wolff
Quite an instructive hand. And just in case east rises with club Kxxxx, Q from west would fall and even if west rises with Kxxx, west is squeezed in rounded suits unless east returns a club after winning K which would be most improbable and of course the hand cannot be made unless declarer leads a low club from table at T2.
Regards
Hi AVRR,
All of us should appreciate your post adding luster to today’s difficult, but instructive hand.
It is always good fortune for you to first, involve yourself, and then corroborate
the play, with special emphasis on the defense. Thanks for your tireless and very loyal cooperation.