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The Aces on Bridge: Friday, 29 December, 2023


3 Comments

A V Ramana RaoDecember 29th, 2023 at 11:00 am

Hi Dear Mr Wolff
hands presents many chances and perhaps south can prevail even winning the club lead in hand. Say he wins and leads diamond to ten. East ducks. South comes to hand with spade K and leads diamond to J. East wins and returns low heart ( If he cashes A, ruffing finesse ) South plays J, west wins. Now, if west doesn’t force dummy, south prevails by drawing trumps ending in dummy and running diamonds. So west returns a heart. Dummy ruffs and now south can add spice to the play by being melodramatic. He ruffs A of spade with small trump and ruffs another heart felling east’s A and south can ruff the winning K of diamonds with remaining small trump!, draw trumps and his hand is high.
Certainly south has a reason to be jubilant . Easy when seeing all hands but perhaps tricky to execute at the table
Regards

A V Ramana RaoDecember 29th, 2023 at 11:01 am

This hand presents and not hands presents

bobbywolffDecember 29th, 2023 at 2:46 pm

Hi Monsieur AVRR,

And just perhaps, your present present, presents presents indigenous to our present perfect pursuit of life, liberty as well as, the pursuit of present happiness. As one lover presented to the other, Bob Hope’s long ago, theme song, “Thanks, for the mammarys”.