On trick 7, why would you not go up with the 10S in dummy? That was your finesse plan all along and now they have handed it to you. If they duck you can then finesse the king, and will take all 3 spades. If they play the king you can win with the ace, cross to KC and then finesse the 8S. It doesn't end up mattering since their 6 still beats your 5 but I like it better for entry management.
Actually when KQxx is in finesse you will lose a trick by playing ten. Lets say play 10-K-A-x, next trick dummy entry, 2-8-J-x. Now you dont have more entry for dummy and u ending up with J5 on hand that you will need to play from. Now lets see when we play small. When we play small RHO need to duck, so we take with a jack. Now that we took we play from hand to ten. Then we use our entry and finesse last spade. Hope you understood.
oh sorry, you were talking about trick 7, he put small because if its 3-3 or 2-4 it doesnt matter, but king could be second from the start, if thats the case we need to try small
This was great, thanks
Thank You 😃.
Great thought process, once again, Adam :-)
Thanks 1NT is so tough!
On trick 7, why would you not go up with the 10S in dummy? That was your finesse plan all along and now they have handed it to you. If they duck you can then finesse the king, and will take all 3 spades. If they play the king you can win with the ace, cross to KC and then finesse the 8S. It doesn't end up mattering since their 6 still beats your 5 but I like it better for entry management.
Actually when KQxx is in finesse you will lose a trick by playing ten. Lets say play 10-K-A-x, next trick dummy entry, 2-8-J-x. Now you dont have more entry for dummy and u ending up with J5 on hand that you will need to play from. Now lets see when we play small. When we play small RHO need to duck, so we take with a jack. Now that we took we play from hand to ten. Then we use our entry and finesse last spade. Hope you understood.
oh sorry, you were talking about trick 7, he put small because if its 3-3 or 2-4 it doesnt matter, but king could be second from the start, if thats the case we need to try small
Not so difficult playing a strong NT!😅 Misery often in weak NT.
Hi Adam
This hand as:
S Kxx
H Kj
D:Axx
C: AJxxx
This hand has 16 points. Do you think this hand is good enough to open 1NT?
I HATE 1NT Pass Pass Pass! Today my partner opened 1NT & I passed with 4-3-3-3 and the Queen of Diamonds! Result was DOWN 3!