Sunday, October 4, 2020

Winning with a unnecessarily high card.

When I saw that the diamonds were blocked and it appeared on the third hand play, that the lead was from the HQT, I resisted the temptation to win cheaply with the nine. I saw the chance for a textbook play of preserving Jx in dummy and Axx in hand to lead up twice. So I overtook the nine with the King.

I now unblocked diamonds and played a heart up, and when West popped up Q, I still had another preserved small heart to enter dummy for a comfortable 11 tricks. Only worth 2.9 cross imps, but technique and virtue have to be their own reward.

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In these pages, I comment on hands from Bridge Base Online ACBL tourneys. I play in these with a variety of partners with different degrees of skill. I might present a hand or two from my collection of bridge books, every now and then. I am more interested in play and defense than in complex bidding systems, but I do follow the cut and thrust of Vanderbilt and World Championship Vugraph and try to keep abreast of expert practice in the obstructive and constructive bidding system department. I may also feature, newspaper-style, famous hands from important matches that I saw on Vugraph.

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