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[freyakitten]

I have a bridge hand to share with you all.

It involves diamonds.

The suit is as follows:

K87 in dummy,
AJTx in hand.

You lead the 8 to the ten, on which your left hand opponent drops the nine, and asks you why you have the trick scored incorrectly. When you inform him that your ten does, indeed, beat his nine, he says "I didn't win that trick? I meant to win that trick."

The problem is not whether you now finesse his marked queen, but whether you move to a new suit entirely and try to set up the beer. I chickened out and just took the marked finesse.

Comments

Best of luck

[mabraham.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember this combination, but you can only make the beer if the Q was doubleton and you unblock the ace by discarding it, or you unblock and finesse, or the Q ends up singleton and you unblock the K under the A after discarding the J.... none of which are that likely!

Re: Best of luck

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

There was another this week in Surfers. It involved AT7 in hand, K5xx in dummy, and RHO discarding a diamond from QJ8, having run the Ten to the Jack earlier, then having him lead his Queen.

This is entirely incoherent, but theirs was the only defence that let me make both an extra overtrick and the beer.