This one is easy enough, wouldn’t
you say? You have two entries to the board, and you have finesses that you
would like to take in Spades and Hearts. So you win the opening lead with the
♦A, and
finesse the Spade Ten … if that forces the Ace or King then you can use the
other Dummy entry to repeat the “proven” finesse (with a 3-2 trump break, losing two Spades and a Heart)
… if the first finesse loses to the ♠J
then you will use the other entry for the Heart finesse, hopefully losing no
Hearts and
three trump tricks.
Ready to see the whole hand? Sorry, you’ll
have to wait a bit longer, first look at things from the West point of view.
►
|
♠ 652
♥
874
♦
A654
♣ A64 |
♠ AKJ
♥
6532
♦
JT9
♣ 987 |
Dummy
You
East
Declarer |
You lead the
♦J, won by
Dummy’s Ace. Now a Spade is led to Dummy’s Ten and it’s your play. Ready to do
so something brilliant? Yes, you win this trick with the King (or the Ace)!
This play cannot cost anything, you will still score three trumps. But it will
sow the seeds of confusion for Declarer, who is likely to waste his remaining
entry to Dummy to repeat the supposedly “winning” Spade finesse, when that entry
might be better used for another purpose.
►
|
♠ 652
♥
874
♦
A654
♣ A64 |
|
♠ AKJ
♥
6532
♦
JT9
♣ 987 |
Dummy
West East
Declarer |
♠ 43
♥
QT9
♦
Q873
♣ JT53 |
|
♠ QT987
♥
AKJ
♦
K2
♣ KQ2 |
|
Let us savor how West’s devious
play wins the day:
Dummy’s
♦A wins the
first trick
Spade finesse is lost to West’s Ace!
Diamond return won by Declarer
Club to Dummy’s Ace
Spade finesse loses to West’s Jack!
Now Declarer cannot take the winning Heart
finesse and goes down one!
Beating 4♠ by one trick? A fine
result! The look on Declarer’s face when the second Spade finesse loses?
Priceless!
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