How familiar are you with percentage plays? Maximize the expected number of tricks possible, based on the combination of cards your partnership holds in a given suit. Assume that you have enough entries to either hand to play the cards as you wish.
What card will you play, for each of the suit combinations below?
[watupro 39]
Suit combinations and solutions courtesy of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge.
Comments
7 responses to “Suit Combo Quiz #1”
On last one if you lead the J or T and next hand shows out you look stupid. We are apparently ignoring bidding and spades likely to be trump with nine of them. Only the robots would cover the J or T lead.
I don’t get 7. You can’t pick up 5-0 on either side. You are never hooking E for Jxxx, Thus all you have left is hooking W for Jxxx if E shows out the 2nd round. Playing an honor from either hand does that.
You have 9 so 5-0 is not possible East can be hooked for Jxxx
Q1 the options given are A K 10 5 and 2. Since neither hand has the 5 and I would have opened with the 4 I couldn’t answer this so I gave up.
AJ43 K10762 is badly worded. You play for the Q to drop, unless the bidding indicates you should cash the A or K then finess the hand with long Spades
There are also options provided that don’t exist n the problems e.g. to lead a 7 that doesn’t exist.
without knowing what the bidding was it’s difficult to guess where missing honor will be
Is it possible to replay hands when playingf free bridge?