Draw Trumps or Cross-ruff for Extra Tricks? with Marla Lawson & Eliminating the Guesswork of Two-Way Finesses with Oliver Powell
Feb 07, 2023 2:31 pm
Draw Trumps or Cross-ruff for Extra Tricks? - with Marla Lawson
Dear ,
In a 4♥ contract, we have ten trumps but are missing the ♥A and the ♥Q. With a singleton diamond in dummy's hand and a singleton spade in declarer's, how should we plan our play?
Should we draw trumps early or try some cross-ruffing?
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Eliminating the Guesswork of Two-Way Finesses - with Oliver Powell
We're in a nice slam but are missing both the ♠Q and the ♦Q. We can't lose to both of them so how should we plan our play? If we try two finesses and they both fail, we're going down!
Maybe there is another way to make our contract...
Oliver takes us through an alternative option to deciding our contract based on how good we are at guessing the two-way finesses.
How would you play the hand? Write your ideas in the comments!
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Yours partner in learning,
Bajir from Learn Bridge Online
