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Detail specifications 737A - Level 3 ★
Suit Handling
How to handle a suit :
East's 1st question : is a finesse necessary ? (Opps haven't made any bids)
East's 1st question : is a finesse necessary ? (Opps haven't made any bids)
- Finesse to the King : you should try it, if your team have less than 11 cards in a suit. With 11 cards in a suit, play the Ace and hope that one of the Opps has the Kingleton.
- Finesse to the Queen : try it if your team have less than 9 cards.. With 9 cards, hope that your Opps have a 2-2 distribution and play Ace-King.
| S | W | N | E |
|---|---|---|---|
1NT |
Pass |
3NT |
Pass |
Pass |
Pass |
| J 10 9 | |||||||||||
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| A K 4 2 |
Suit handling :
The finesse problem sorted, the next question ... is it possible to to take an honor singleton from one of the Opps ?
The reply is easy :
The finesse problem sorted, the next question ... is it possible to to take an honor singleton from one of the Opps ?
The reply is easy :
- you have enough cards to play the finesse several times and you are able to keep communications with dummy. so start by testing the waters, this will increase your odds.
- This play shouldn't compromise your finesse because the probability of finding an honor singleton is always lower than finding an honor doubleton or tripleton !
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| A K J 10 6 5 |
Exercise Q4500 No testing the waters, you can't finesse again and make 6 tricks if the Queen is 4th in East.
| K J 8 6 | |||||||||||
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| A 10 5 2 |
Exercise Q4501 It doesn't look like it's going to be a problem here to test the ground before attempting a finesse on West. You have enough cards to repeat the play.
Suit Handling : which way should I finesse ?
And now, the last question before implementation, which way to finesse ?
With no info on Oppp's distribution and holding (you can let your Opps be in hand without taking a risk) sometimes it's possible to finesse both ways, but the question is ... which way ?
If one of your tenaces is reinforced with intermediary cards, always finesse towards the strongest tenace and hopefully you'll be able to strip out Opps' intermediary cards.
And now, the last question before implementation, which way to finesse ?
With no info on Oppp's distribution and holding (you can let your Opps be in hand without taking a risk) sometimes it's possible to finesse both ways, but the question is ... which way ?
If one of your tenaces is reinforced with intermediary cards, always finesse towards the strongest tenace and hopefully you'll be able to strip out Opps' intermediary cards.
| K J 8 6 | |||||||||||
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| A 10 5 2 |
Exercise Q4501 Here the 8 reinforces dummy's Jack and will perhaps enable you to finesse to the 9. So play from your hand towards dummy's tenace.
FR version
Finessing the queen: With 7 cards think that the Queen may possibly be 3rd or 4th : Start with the 9 and try finessing the Queen. If it succeeds you'll have 4 tricks ! If East doesn't play the Queen on the 1st trick, continue with the 10 then the Jack.