[sceptic]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 Pass  1♦    Dbl   1♠
 2♥    2♠    4♥    Pass
 Pass  Pass  

OK, I made a huge error here, I sat and saw how I possibly could make my tricks, but I played it very badly, can you see how I screwed up

ACBL tourney 940 if you want to see the hnad and how I played it

www.bridgebase.com/myhands

[sceptic]

and to make it easier for you, I just did not stop and think enough

[pdmunro]

Analysis of Brd 4

http://online.bridgebase.com/cgi-bin/histo...940-1109801144-

Your play looks OK to my intermediate eyes.

On the first trick, a small ♠ was led, with South (Fred) playing the ♠Q.

I can tell from the bidding, dummy and first trick that S (Fred) has only that ♠QJxxx(x) and a singleton or void in ♦'s.
North has all the missing honours. So you can take the ♥ finesse safely.
In the actual play, you didn't take the finesse. But you made 11 tricks, and you were only in 4S.
You lost an imp to those who made 12 tricks. No one was in slam.

Before I looked at what happened on the first trick, my instinct was to do just what you did:
go up with the ♥A and play another ♥ to get rid of trumps.

It shows how the first trick adds vital information.

I just had an idea. Perhaps, South should keep quiet about the exact nature of his honours.
If he didn't show you he had the ♠Q, you would have to guess who had the ♥K. :-)

[sceptic]

thx pd. I think my error (I hope I am right) was not to leave myself in the correct hand to play the heart finese, that way I make 12 trx

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sceptic, on Mar 3 2005, 10:54 AM, said:

thx pd. I think my error (I hope I am right) was not to leave myself in the correct hand to play the heart finese, that way I make 12 trx

What was your plan ? why didnt you draw trumps when you were in hand ? (just asking not saying it was wrong.

[sceptic]

that is the whole point, my plan was bad, I saw that I could lose a club on my Spade, I just went for it, with out thinking long enough about my options,

After I had taken black suits out, I left myself, in the wrong hand and that was the point I was trying to make, I am happy I made more mistakes, or there was better lines to play,

But the one that concerned me most was leaving myself in the wrong hand,

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sceptic, on Mar 4 2005, 05:13 AM, said:

that is the whole point, my plan was bad, I saw that I could lose a club on my Spade, I just went for it, with out thinking long enough about my options,

After I had taken black suits out, I left myself, in the wrong hand and that was the point I was trying to make, I am happy I made more mistakes, or there was better lines to play,

But the one that concerned me most was leaving myself in the wrong hand,

I'll explain myself.
Planing is good, but even before a plan , there is the default plan, the basic plan, the one plan/algorithm that i would teach any begginer.
1. Do i need to ruff losers in the short trump hand ?
If the answer is yes, ruff and go to step 2.
If the answer is no go to step 2
2. Draw trumps.
You didnt follow this basic plan, this should only happend if you had an alternative plan, if you dont then just follow the basic one.

[mike777]

ok, taking a quick not expert look at hand, it seems I can lose 2d and 1 h yes?

In fact 5 second look seems to confirm only 2d and 1h, yes?

To repeat, after 5 or 10seconds do you think 1h and 2d loser? Experts may look deeper but we are novice. so do you agree?