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Best line in a slam

#1 User is offline   Siegmund 

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Posted 2012-June-20, 19:09

AKx
AKT
AKJT87x
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Q876x
J9x
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AJ8xx

All vul, matchpoints.
2C - 2D (2H would have been a bust)
3D - 3S
6S

Opening lead is a small club.

Best line to guarantee making against bad breaks may still be appropriate since others may be in 6D or going down a different slam. But we do want as much chance of making 7 as we can.

First big decision is whether to ruff this lead or let it come around to our ace-jack.
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Posted 2012-June-22, 04:17

Ruff the lead in dummy, ruff a diamond, play AK of trumps, ruff another diamond and play queen of trumps, discarding a heart.
Next play to a top heart in dummy and play diamonds from the top. Provided trumps break and diamonds are no worse than 4-2 you have 13 tricks.
If trumps are 4-1 and diamonds break or if trumps break but diamonds are worse than 4-2 you have 12 tricks without touching clubs.
It does not matter whether you get over-ruffed on the second diamond or not.
If neither trumps nor diamonds behave you are probably down on this line. But in this case, alternative slam contracts do not stand much of a chance either.
Your chance of making is close to 95% for this line with a roughly 60% chance for an overtrick.

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Posted 2012-June-22, 11:02

I wanted to ruff the first trick too; my P won it in hand, and while I instinctively felt ruffing had to be better, ran into trouble when I actually tried to find breaks on which it was down if she won the club but making if she ruffed (there is one, 4-1 spades and 5-1 diamonds onside, I think, but thought there ought to be more.)
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Posted 2012-June-22, 12:57

Not tufting the first trick in dummy is quite a bad play (to say the least). The small trump in dummy doesn't have any other purpose and keeping the club ace is important if you get overruffed and in some other occasions.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the 3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2012-June-23, 01:19

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