Comments | agh: San Francisco Day 2

agh

San Francisco Day 2

Dec 01, 2007 19:21

Joel, Chris, Jen and I played in the North American Swiss. Joel and I were eager to avenge our heartbreaking failure to qualify with Dave and McZen last year in Hawaii; after going 4-0 in the afternoon, we had gone 0-4 and missed the cut by 2 VPs. Even though we were a first-time partnership, ince we’ve both played with Dave and McZen, we had ( Read more... )

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Bridge problem answer agh December 2 2007, 03:27:01 UTC

Playing on spades has to happen immediately, because if you play a heart to the K they draw your trump. If the spades are 5-2 or worse and the short hand has 3 trumps, you won’t be able to get a ruff. Among 4-3 hands, if the finesse succeeds or the K drops tripleton, you make. That’s 44% plus some 5-2 and 6-1 configurations. I’m not sure what the total % is.
Playing on hearts succeeds when the hearts split 3-2, 68%. But to get enough entries to the board, you use the heart A and must ruff a club winner. I took this approach and made 6.

Re: Bridge problem answer agh December 2 2007, 03:27:52 UTC

(and the diamonds always need to split in either case)

csg87 December 2 2007, 17:00:54 UTC

I haven't played much bridge lately, but the diamond play in 3NT looks very wrong. With RHO's 1S overcall and lack of spade values, he probably has most of the missing high cards and this looks like an endplay situation from the start. Cashing the hearts immediately looks right, as it will tell you how many heart tricks you're getting and immediately put RHO under discard pressure if he is short.

anonymous December 3 2007, 15:52:19 UTC

First one: Setting up hearts is the right play. A lot of the time you'll be able to discard all three spades from your hand.

Second one: Auction was fine. You're playing weak NT? (pard has a balanced 15 count) You have to keep in mind that most people play strong NT and will be in 4h on this hand off a Stayman auction, so you will need to beat their score. You didn't give the lead (just said you "won the lead"). Not sure why you overtook the d10 with the dQ..if you were going to play on diamonds then ducking looks normal.

I haven't been playing much recently either..haven't had much time. I'm going to try to make it to Vegas though

nobleshore December 3 2007, 15:57:05 UTC

previous comment was me, I obv didnt read the form of scoring on the 2nd one so ignore that =)

agh December 3 2007, 23:49:52 UTC

The lead of the spade Q was listed.

We were playing strong NT, but partner makes some unusual reads and tends to de-evaluate 15 counts with loose jacks and queens pretty often, and likes 5-card suits (we play 14+-17).

We ended up winning 3 IMPs because 4H was down 2 at the other table.