Monday, April 13, 2009

Searching for a source of tricks in 3NT




Dlr: S
Vul: All




A63

AQ6

9732

A82




QJ87

KJ108

QJ4

75



1054

942

A105

Q1093




K92

753

K86

KJ64




As dealer, All VUL, I open a 10-12 (mini-) NoTrump and with opponents passing, get raised to THREE NOTRUMP by partner.

LHO leads the Eight of hearts. Not reading this, I duck. RHO contributing the deuce. LHO persists with the JACK of hearts, I try the Queen which wins. I play Ace of clubs and club to the Jack, both opps playing up the line, Jack holding. King of clubs discloses the break, lefty pitching the four of diamonds. Now I need to build some tricks. I lead a small diamond from my hand, LHO playing one of his quacks, allowed to win by partner. LHO plays a third round of hearts, all following. Now when I play a diamond up to my king, RHO flies Ace (it does not matter), I have the entries to make DK and the long diamond in dummy, so my two built diamonds go with my three clubs, two hearts and two spades for nine tricks and 92.24%.

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