Declare or defend?
A little quiz today. Look at following hand:
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Short question: when you're West, looking at all hands, do you want to declare 5♦* or defend 4♥, and why do you think you're right?
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Ok, the quiz has been solved. You want to declare 5♦* because 4♥ is laydown. In the comments there was suggested to endplay East. There are several ways to do this (basicly after you've played ♠ you'll run trumps and endplay East):
- you can start with a small ♠ to the King. Then you have 2 ways of endplaying him: either with ♠ or with ♣.
- you can also start with a small ♠ and let it run! Later you play ♠Q and East can't make a good decision.
The only thing you shouldn't do is start with ♠Q, since East can hold up and there's no way to endplay him anymore.
3 reactions:
Seems like South can make 4H by drawing trumps, cashing the DA and playing a spade to the king. East has to win and can exit with a diamond but gets endplayed again later.
So I suppose as West I'd prefer to declare 5Dx which is only two off. Unless North bid hearts first :)
How exactly will you endplay East? If you ruff the Diamond and play SQ followed by a small Spade, East can easily exit with another Spade. If you play Clubs 3 times, he still has CT which is high.
You play a spade to the King, East wins and plays a diamond, so you run off all your trumps and East has to either let you endplay him in spades to lead a club, or let you drop his CQ.
So, I guess that means you want to declare 5DX.
Michael
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