Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!ching From: ching@hp-pcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: Re: test your play:R8 Message-ID: <69000002@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 02:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.69000002 Posted: Fri Mar 30 02:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:57:52 EST References: <515@ihuxe.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Portable Computer Division - Corvallis, OR Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxe:-51500:hp-pcd:69000002:000:713 Nf-From: hp-pcd!ching Mar 17 23:47:00 1984 /***** hp-pcd:net.rec.bridge / ihuxe!rainbow / 11:00 am Mar 16, 1984*/ S:Q32 H:KQJ9 D:Q4 C:J432 S:K H:T2 D:AKJT32 C:AQT5 Contract:5D Lead:AS,4S Scoring:Imps Whats your best line of play? /* ---------- */ This is similar to "try this hand". The same principle "don't commit yourself too early" applies here, too. At round two, play a low spade from table and ruff in hand. Draw trumps. Now lead a low heart from hand. If heart holds, discard the second heart on dummy's SQ. You may lose at most another club. This works if trump break is no worse than 4-1. If you lose the first heart, then you have a heart entry to the table and can discard three clubs under dummy's SQ and two good heart tricks.