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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge
Subject: declarer play problem
Message-ID: <2767@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 13:53:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: rabbit.2767
Posted: Wed May  2 13:53:10 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 3-May-84 19:30:02 EDT
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With opponents silent, you bid to 6 Spades.
When the opening lead is a trump, things suddenly
become more difficult:

	S: J98
	H: AK63
	D: AK542
	C: Q

	S: AKQ10
	H: 54
	D: Q3
	C: A9653

If you don't want any hints, stop reading here.

If you didn't get a trump lead, you would win whatever it was,
Ace of Clubs, club ruff, diamond to the Queen, club ruff, and
draw trumps.  You would succeed unless trumps broke 5-1 or worse,
with four trump tricks, two hearts, three diamonds, the Ace of
clubs, and two club ruffs.  With the trump lead, you have a
problem: after ruffing the second club, you have no way back to
your hand except by ruffing a red card, and you will then be
unable to cope with the likely 4-2 trump split.

If you don't like to gamble on 3-3 trumps, you can gamble on 3-3
diamonds: just draw trumps and run the diamonds.  In fact, if you
ruff a club before drawing trumps, you'll make all 13 tricks, so
if you're banking on the diamonds being 3-3, you might as well
have bid seven as six.

That's all the hints for now.