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Draw Trumps or Cross-ruff for Extra Tricks? with Marla Lawson & Eliminating the Guesswork of Two-Way Finesses with Oliver Powell

Missing the ♥A and the ♥Q, and with a singleton diamond in dummy's hand and a singleton spade in declarer's, how should we plan our play?

Draw Trumps or Cross-ruff for Extra Tricks? - with Marla Lawson

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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?


Leave a comment sharing how you would play this hand here: https://youtu.be/XkAM0ZkCVnA


Keep learning with Marla Lawson!

Two-week free trial for new students in Marla's Beginner class: https://learnbridgeonline.com/product/weekly-lesson-with-marla-lawson/


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Eliminating the Guesswork of Two-Way Finesses - with Oliver Powell

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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!

https://youtu.be/a08pOSykwxI


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Thank you for your support!


Yours partner in learning,

Bajir from Learn Bridge Online


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