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Bad bridge at the club

#21 User is offline   barmar 

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Posted 2019-April-19, 09:33

I can easily see losing 2 trump tricks to the KJ doubleton offside. Run the 10 then finesse Q.

Or if there's a singleton J offside. Run the 10 and then try to drop the K.

I just checked the Bridge Encyclopedia's Card Combinations section. They say that the best play for 4 tricks is to cash the A then lead towards the Q; the odds of success are 78%. The play for the most tricks (which I suppose is what you should do at matchpoints) is to finesse the Q, but it doesn't say what to do the next time if it loses -- finesse or cash; I suppose this is an 8-ever, 9-never situation, so you should cash.

But they don't show the card combination with one of the spot cards being the 9, I wonder if that changes things?

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Posted 2019-April-19, 11:28

I wish I could find my copy of Rudinesco's book, which I'm almost certain would have the answer to that. It's around here somewhere...
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