Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Coolest hand follow-up

[Diagram repeated from yesterday's post]

JT8
KJ
AT95
J642


A
AQT8732
K63
A8

RHO opens 2D and you wind up declaring 6H on a trump lead (trumps are 2-2). How do you play?

See here for the technical answer.

See below for a different approach.



At the table I allowed the HK and HJ to hold (both following) and called for a diamond. RHO played the 4, so I let the 5 ride.

If he had covered, the technical line was still available.

[This deal was published in Truscott's column, here, though the website apparently omits the diagram -- non-critical spots and the exact black shapes may have been different.  UPDATE: Found a hardcopy and updated the non-critical spots and black suits.]

1 comment:

  1. An uncommon variant of strip-squeeze, and a neat little swindle all on one hand...can't ask for much more.

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