Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Quicktricks 4/27

I defended this one, but it's kind of an instructive basic hand.

You have AK954 J AK QJ862, righty deals. It goes p - 1S - 3D - 4S, and you get to play it. LHO leads the DQ.

J62
AQT975
T
K53

AK954
J
AK
QJ862

Without the preempt, you might try SAK, hoping to drop a doubleton spade queen and take 12 tricks, but with the preempt, spades are probably not breaking nicely. Best play is to play the spade ace, then a spade up to the jack. This proves to be necessary, RHO has QT87 of trumps, and you can pick him up this way.

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