mn|SKY Club & Larry Cohen|tu||
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cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|
cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|
cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|
cr|590|cb|5180|cg|5130|
cr|6255|cb|6255|cg|6255|
cr|7120|cb|7255|cg|80|
fh|170|ff|1Times New Roman|fi|1y|fb|1y|fu||
fh|250|ff|2Times New Roman|fi|2y|fb|2y|fu||
fh|379|ff|3Arial|fi||fb||fu||
fh|410|ff|4Arial|fi||fb|4y|fu||
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^-{ SKY CLUB & Larry Cohen }
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|cs|1|fp|2|3d|3|at|^-{ Deal of the week
Series I - Deal IV }
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|fp|4|ht|y|at|^- The analyses are kindly made and shared for you by Larry Cohen.
^*Hwww.larryco.com^*N
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|cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
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|fp||at|Welcome to the fourth in a row deal of the new series ( Last for Series 1).  |pg||

nt||cs|2|ht|b|fp|2|at|^-{INTRODUCTION}
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|fp||at|This is the final deal of the first four of this series (see previous three weeks) where we will be facing a preempt by partner. When your partner preempts, you have an easy decision. If you are interested in game (rare), then bid accordingly. But, if you are ^*Inot^*N interested in game, just raise to the level of your side's number of trumps. To read more about this, please see: 

To read more about this, please see: ^*Hwww.larryco.com/BridgeArticles/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=129^*N



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bg|6|st||qx|Board1|3d||ah|SKY&&Larry|ah|S I - D IV|
pn|South,Partner,North,You,South,West,North,East|md|2SKJT32H93DJ4CJ873,S8HKQJT42DQ32CT92,SQ976H65DAKCAKQ65|sv|b|sk|e|nt||ht|c|at|On this week's deal, you hold these East cards:|pg||hs|ed|nt||ht|c|at|I'd like to take that diamond suit to a poker tournament. |pg||ls|ed|mb|2h|nt||ht|c|at|Anyway, back at the bridge table, with both sides vulnerable your partner deals and opens 2@H. |pg||mb|d|at|RHO doubles and it is up to you.  |pg||
nt||cq|3|lb|*mYour call is?^Pass~3@h~4@h^2|nt||ht|c|at|Since you have no game interest, this is an easy decision. |pg||nt||ht|c|at|Your side has 9 trumps,  |pg||
at|so you should bid to the 9-trick-level bid 3@H. |pg||mb|3h|at|This bid is not invitational |pg||
at|- it is just raising the preempt.|pg||nt||ht|c|mb|3s|at|Your LHO bids 3@S  |pg||
mb|p4s|at|and RHO raises to 4@S.  |pg||nt||ht|c|mb|ppp|at|Everyone passes |pg||pc|hk|at|and your partner leads the @HK and you see: |pg||nt||ht|c|at|With the warning bell sounds (this deal is in "print") can you find the solution?|pg||nt||ht|c|at|On defense, just as on offense, it is a good idea to think at trick one.  |pg||hc|h65a8sa|nt||ht|c|at|After partner's lead, you can see two heart tricks and the trump ace. |pg||lc|h65a8sa|at|How will you get the setting trick? |pg||hc|c4|nt||ht|c|at|Your singleton club should give you the answer. |pg||lc|c4|nt||ht|c|pc|h|at|If you can get a club ruff, you can defeat 4@S. |pg||
at|And you can! |pg||
at|Partner won't know to shift to clubs, but you do. |pg||
hc|ha|at|So, at trick one overtake with your @HA, |pg||
lc|ha|pc|hah|pg||
at|and at trick two… |pg||
hc|c4|at|play your singleton club.|pg||
lc|c4|pc|c4cc9ca|pg||
hc|sa|nt||ht|c|at|You can defend this way because you have the trump ace to get in with. |pg||lc|sa|hs|ns|nt||ht|c|at|When declarer plays trump, |pg||
ls|ns|pc|s|pg||
hc|sa|at|you win your @SA and play a heart to partner.|pg||
lc|sa|pc|sass|pg||
pc|hhhth|pg||sk|a|hs|wcnc|nt||ht|c|at|If he doesn't give you your club ruff, |pg||ls|ncwc|pc|c|at|you may need to find a new partner.|pg||pc|csc|pg||
mc|9|pg||nt||ht|c|at|On this deal you got to make a ^*BLAWful^*N 3@H bid, and then to execute good logic on defense to set the contract.|pg||up|20|nt||ht|c|at|Next week we will veer off into a new theme. 
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pf|y|nt||ht|c|at|You can now experiment with how the play of this deal could go by selecting the cards that you want to play for all 4 players. Click on the cards that you want to play. 

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