Plan the play?
What is your plan?
#1
Posted 2010-August-24, 15:48
Plan the play?
I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
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#2
Posted 2010-August-24, 16:26
#3
Posted 2010-August-24, 16:34
JLOGIC, on Aug 24 2010, 05:26 PM, said:
well so much for the easy part
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#4
Posted 2010-August-24, 16:36
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Then read souls and decide between various lines. I don't see a point of making plan for whole hand now. A lot depends on situation in hearts, if T get covered (so we have one more entry to dummy and what their discards are).
If T♥ wins I think finessing diamonds is good. If that wins too we can try to set strip squeeze against E or just set up clubs depending on their discards to our running hearts.
#5
Posted 2010-August-24, 16:38
JLOGIC, on Aug 25 2010, 10:26 AM, said:
You don't mind blocking the spades?
I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon
#6
Posted 2010-August-24, 16:42
pooltuna, on Aug 24 2010, 05:34 PM, said:
JLOGIC, on Aug 24 2010, 05:26 PM, said:
well so much for the easy part
How about repeating the finesse?
Later, we may have to choose between what we do first among unblocking the spade, and running the ♣Q, but I'll take the word of others since I don't have the patience to think about this right now.
Finally, we may have to decide between playing for clubs 3-3 / squeeze or a diamond finesse for 12.
Edited: (speaking for me) I don't mind blocking the spades, since they can't effectively attack my entries, and in practice they play a 2nd spade anyway.
This post has been edited by Phil: 2010-August-24, 16:44
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#7
Posted 2010-August-24, 17:36
And of course sometimes the heart finesse loses and I have the 9 of hearts as an entry.
#8
Posted 2010-August-24, 17:39
Blocking the spades seems like a non issue.

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