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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. 
   

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Sleight of Hand / upsetting a DARE lesson?
« on: October 12, 2021, 02:22:14 AM »
onOCT. 11th 'DARE'   there was deal one as follows:  Apparently it was not intended to be a DARE TO DEFEND problem,  as the opening lead was specified, but i believe there was a findable defense to break the 3NT contract; see what you think.....         North:    ATx
                                                       AKQ
                     West:     Q97               A8x        KJ865
                                   98xx             K874       JTx
                                   KT2                             J9x
                                   JTx                32           Qx
                                                        xxx
                                                        Q543
                                                         A9xx


The lesson plan mandated 4th best spade won by west's Q and continued, then east clearing the suit to big guy's ace.   The gold stars went to norths thst took all his/her herts then banged out the clubs   catching west to lead out to  the diamondqueen after collecting the thirteener heart  ( 1 spade, 3 hearts, 3 clubs,  and [WHEW]  TWO diamonds == nine..


   veere had a better idea, and i wonder if it is an absolute killer...:

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Sleight of Hand / 2nd TRIPLE--in 3 days OMG
« on: March 12, 2021, 01:10:48 AM »
                                     !S A !H ATxx !D Ax !C KQJxxx


 !S 987xx !H 97xx !D Jxx !C x                                  !S KJx !H QJT !D Kxxx !C xxx


                                    !S QTxx !H Kx !D QTxx !C Axx


   This deal came from Donna's  Mar 11  chalktalk.  The postmortem rightly looked at agreements in reversing auctions and how to reach the really good club slam, but I rebid 3NT like many in the live event. Pat cleared the spade ace on opening lead, and I played a diamond "down", missguessing, and a diamond came back clearing THAT ace.  Now we have 10 tricks to take but only one looser lost, so we are "without the count", so I just claimed the ten tricks, saying "crazy playout for crazy squeeze will just waste the gallery's time."  But SO wrong!   Look what happens to east after running 5 clubs....


                             !S -- !H AT6x !D -- !C J
 
 !S -- !H 97xx !D x !C --                             !S K !H QJT !D K !C --


                              !S Qx !H Kx !D Q !C --
 
  East(T'was Wackojack I think) will not enjoy playing to the final club, Not only does any sluff give declarer his 11th trick,  but if he dumps either king, opp will cross to the HK play the established winner and squeeze out "SLAM".  To stop the bleeding, east must give up hearts hoping partner can still beat dummy's six, on the final trick.
   "Basic"  triple squeezes  are rare enough,  but it was only 3 days ago that "we" got a similar one in The Zoo,  that I actually did bother to play out.   That makes three in 14 years, folks.

  P.S. ...The recent one, that was played out to success can be found if you "grid" Yosimity's MYHANDS file for day 3/10, playing with silvo vs. CCR3+Kenberg  (EW 630).

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Sleight of Hand / Inverted, IGNORING the search for 4-4 majors fit.
« on: December 12, 2020, 02:54:41 AM »
At the Donna mentoring session in early December '20,   I sat with my Kaplan-Sheinwold pard  ShawnT and held this facing his 1 Diamond opener:  A743, A4, AK[sixth], x. We had an all too brief fun auction on the way to the diamond grand that i 'knew' was good if not icy already:  1D, 2!D [inverted raise]; 3!C, 3S [notrump-probe, usually]: 3NT, 4H [the ace]; PASS  (maiking five  when nobody got the taps going in hearts).   If we were not on stage in a mentor session, I surely would have RKC int 7D on my first rebid - a habit i vow to break completely in 2021.   
    During the postmortem one thing mentioned was that showing 4CM rules out using a minor raise (whether strong or weak or in-between?).   Kibbs said it and the hostess said "amen"  to this.  I let this sleeping dog lie as I had just smart-mouthed myself into a stupid contract with shawn's unexpected help, AND my other resolution for the coming year happens to be "Don't teach the teacher, if it means direct confrontation"  :)
   But I put it to you who will see this: is it not correct to bid toward a minor slam you already know is good for 6 if not seven, without bowing at the "Stayman Altar"?
    P.S.   in K-S, a weak notrump system,  Shawn's opening will never be a balanced 13  and SUPPOSEDLY also not a slightly shapey pile of garbage.

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