{"id":109,"date":"2014-08-07T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-08-07T08:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:04:59","slug":"best-chance-missing-the-a-j-and-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Best Chance Missing the A, J, and 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you are the declarer and you need to hold this suit to 1 loser:<\/p>\n<p>Dummy: Q 6 4 2<\/p>\n<p>Declarer: K 7 5 3<\/p>\n<p>Looks fairly hopeless, right? \u00a0Most of the time (probably 80% or so) you will lose 2 tricks in this suit. \u00a0Your only\u00a0chances to hold it to one loser are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delay playing the suit so that one of the opponents makes a costly discard in it; \u00a0or<\/li>\n<li>Find one of the hands with a doubleton Ace (and guess which one).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suppose you think LHO is more likely to hold the Ace doubleton. \u00a0Perhaps they made a takeout double of this suit. \u00a0Lead to the Queen in dummy. \u00a0If it wins, lead back toward your hand and duck. \u00a0If the now bare Ace wins, you look like a hero to your admiring partner. \u00a0If it doesn&#8217;t, oh well, nothing was going to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you are the declarer and you need to hold this suit to 1 loser: Dummy: Q 6 4 2 Declarer: K 7 5 3 Looks fairly hopeless, right? \u00a0Most of the time (probably 80% or so) you will lose&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=109\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}