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North At 6 Clubs, East wins 6 the Ace of Spades and A K 10 8 and returns one. How do A J 10 you plan your attack? K 9 7 5 2 |
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  Nope, a finesse is a 50% chance. You're putting all
your eggs in one basket without trying something else first.
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  Correct. Actually you want to ruff their Spade return!
You have to set up a red suit so you don't know which one to discard from yet.
Ruff East's Spade return, play a couple trump, play high Hearts
and when the Queen drops you can get rid of a Diamond.
If the QH doesn't drop try the Diamond finesse.
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  You can do this but you still have to decide
which red suit to finesse later on so this isn't the solution.
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  Not really. Don't draw too much trump or you can't ruff the Spades.
Plus you still need to get rid of a red card so what are you going to do about that.
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