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Sleight of Hand / Beating the DARE dealer (THIRD attempt)?
« on: November 03, 2021, 10:49:21 PM »
,Here is Deal 6 from Nov. 1st DARE session. The winning plan was to play out 10 tricks catching the victim, East baring her diamond K which she then wins, to play into the dummy's J-9 of HEARTS. But must this work?,
Q96
J9xx
JT52 AQ3 3
2 A63 ATxxxx
T987 KJ2
9842 QJT
AK87x
KQ
xxx
K75
The play starts with the heart K-Q wiped out and a diamond shift through the AQ. No choice but to rise in dummy and pull trumps. Another trump where dummy dumps one club leaves 6 cards where dummy and west will both have 3 doubletons:
---
J9
Qx
Ax ---
10 x
K J
x QJ
---
xx
Kxx
The play we all missed, and I failed to be present to be shown is to unguard the diamond queen on the final trump. We were never intending to WIN the diamond queen, but to throw East in with it anyway! (unless East ditches all of his, to keep QJT of clubs ). Now all that is left is to take her 2 minor cards away arriving at trick ten which leaves East the known heart 10-x and the presumed diamond king and give her the diamond.
Drat. Foiled again- declarer cannot be beaten. But SOMEDAY i will catch AngelBlue in a mistake.
Q96
J9xx
JT52 AQ3 3
2 A63 ATxxxx
T987 KJ2
9842 QJT
AK87x
KQ
xxx
K75
The play starts with the heart K-Q wiped out and a diamond shift through the AQ. No choice but to rise in dummy and pull trumps. Another trump where dummy dumps one club leaves 6 cards where dummy and west will both have 3 doubletons:
---
J9
Qx
Ax ---
10 x
K J
x QJ
---
xx
Kxx
The play we all missed, and I failed to be present to be shown is to unguard the diamond queen on the final trump. We were never intending to WIN the diamond queen, but to throw East in with it anyway! (unless East ditches all of his, to keep QJT of clubs ). Now all that is left is to take her 2 minor cards away arriving at trick ten which leaves East the known heart 10-x and the presumed diamond king and give her the diamond.
Drat. Foiled again- declarer cannot be beaten. But SOMEDAY i will catch AngelBlue in a mistake.