End Plays in Contract and Duplicate Bridge
In our previous episode, we learned side suit split “Quackers” (Queen-Jack) can be promoted to earn an much needed trick. Also, it’s always nice to induce the opponents to help us so we do not have to guess a two-way finesse when missing the Queen.
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Throw-in plays on a side suit is powerful magic, but can it work on a trump suit, too? And how about making non-working honors into a repeated finesse? If you’re ready to become a magician, read on and view our commentary…
Introduction – Recap:
General methods to win extra tricks using avoidance, elimination and end plays:
– Temporarily ducking a winning trick.
– Choose when to throw opponents into the lead: finesses, ruffs and sluffs, etc.
– Allow non-dangerous opponent into the lead.
Review – Promotion:
– Holding J x x and Q x x, strip side suits so opponent must either lead to this holding or give you a ruff in one hand and a sluff in the other hand.
– Holding A J x and K 10 x, again strip side suits so opponent must lead to this holding, eliminating the need to guess a two-way finesse.
Bridge players love repeated finesses with holdings like A J 10 and x x x.
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Happy Bridge Trails and Tales,
BridgeHands
I was not able to open part 1 of today’s (3/16) video commentary .
I can’t get the video of #53 to play???
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Best wishes,
BridgeHands Support
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Okay, the results are in on part 3 of our poll on avoidance, elimination and end plays. The first four responses each received close to 10 percent of the votes:
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J 5 4…and…Q 6 3 (throw in either)
A 3 2…and…J 10 7 (throw in either)
K 2…and…4 3 (throw in North)
A 2…and…Q 3 (throw in South)
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Finally, 63 percent of the votes went to:
None – all may be helpful throw-in plays
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So throw-in plays, end plays and the like can be a bit challenging for all of us at times. For the above card combinations, we recommend getting a deck of cards, separating a single suit and setting up these holdings for further experimentation. On the top two hands, you will find that when either North or South leads these suit you will receive 1 and 2 tricks on the respective hand – often one more than if you led the suit yourself. On the third hand you’ll find that North must be on lead to win a trick, while on the fourth hand South must be on lead to win 2 tricks when South holds the King.
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Good luck with all your Bridge plays, be they End Play, throw-in plays, or otherwise!
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Michael
Polling you 53 Hand 1 has some errors :
1. North hold 9HCP not 11HCP
2. If west wins trick 8 and trick 10 as indicated, and east wins trick 1 the 6S contract cannot be accomplished.
3. Shouldn’t this be a 4S contract?
Regards
Eddy
Here’s the link to the correct information in our video
Many Thanks,
Michael