{"id":258,"date":"2015-03-25T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=258"},"modified":"2015-03-25T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:49:49","slug":"3-tricks-from-kxxx-opposite-qxxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"3 Tricks from Kxxx opposite Qxxx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came up yesterday in a practice session with Kathy on BridgeBaron. \u00a0You&#8217;re in a very dicey 3NT contract where you opened 1NT and your vulnerable LHO overcalled 2H (DONT, but it doesn&#8217;t really matter). \u00a0You need to get 3 tricks from the Diamond suit with this layout:<\/p>\n<p>Dummy: \u00a0Q852<\/p>\n<p>You: K976<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best way to play this suit? \u00a0Your only chance for 3 tricks is if one of the players has a doubleton ace. \u00a0If you had X-ray glasses you&#8217;d see which opponent has this. \u00a0Lacking X-ray glasses or the hand record for the session, we&#8217;re going to presume LHO (the bidder) has it, so our presumed suit layout is this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Q852<\/p>\n<p>AJ, A10, or Ax \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0J10x, Jxx, or 10xx<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">K976<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0<strong>knew<\/strong> the cards were placed this way then the winning play is low to the Q and then duck a diamond to the now bare Ace. \u00a0When you&#8217;re playing the hand you don&#8217;t know for certain, but given the information available, this is the best chance to get your 3 tricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came up yesterday in a practice session with Kathy on BridgeBaron. \u00a0You&#8217;re in a very dicey 3NT contract where you opened 1NT and your vulnerable LHO overcalled 2H (DONT, but it doesn&#8217;t really matter). \u00a0You need to get 3&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/?p=258\">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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigfootbridge.club\/bigfootbridge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}