VUgraph
Fulvio Fantoni (Italian champ) runs various bridge tours and advertises each event on BridgeBase as well as displaying two tables on VUgraph. A real treat for us kibitzers. Here is the Upcoming VUgraph (free to view) list
A beaut from Fantoni's event last week:
Bd: 6
Dlr: East
Vul: EW
West East
S K10 S AQ32
H AKQ H
D AQ4 D 86532
C AKJ74 C 10632
West North East South
Giubilo Gullott Franchi Biondo
Pass Pass
2C Pass 2D Pass
2H Pass 2S Pass
2NT Pass 3C Pass
3H Pass 3S Pass
3NT Pass 4C Pass
4H Pass 4S Pass
5D Pass 5H Pass
5S Pass 5NT Pass
6C Pass Pass Pass after many asking bids
Trick 1: HJ D2 H6 HK
Trick 2: CA C9 C2 C5
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The other room also reached 6
, but went -1 on the same lead.
QUIZ: How did Giubilo guarantee making it?
SOLUTION:
Declarer continued by cashing the 
A then ruffed the Q! Now he advanced a trump and when South followed he finessed the knave. He can claim at this stage!!
- If the finesse wins, he can try for an overtrick by cashing all the
trumps. If one defender holds 4(+) spades and the 
K he gets squeezed
in the 5-card ending. +1370;
- If the finesse loses, North is effectively endplayed -
- a spade will be ducked into declarer's K-10. A trump entry to dummy will obtain two diamond discards on the spades;
- a heart gives a ruff/sluff. Sluff a diamond from hand now and discard the Q on the 3rd spade;
- a diamond is, of course, the easiest for declarer.
In the other room, declarer cashed both club tops at tricks 2 and 3. When North showed out, both the 
/ squeeze and/or the diamond finesse failed. -1.
North
S J86
H J108743
D K107
C 9
West East
S K10 S AQ32
H AKQ H
D AQ4 D 86532
C AKJ74 C 10632
South
S 9754
H 9652
D J9
C Q85 |
Leif-Erik Stabell wrote in -
Sorry to disappoint you, but spectacular as it was, it was almost certainly not the best line. Declarer now goes down if South shows out on the second round of clubs and the diamond finesse is wrong, since he doesn't have any trumps left in dummy in order to endplay North. Only if you "know" that North would never "falsecard" in trumps with Q98 is this line correct.
The best line is probably to cash A K Q of hearts after one round of trumps and discard 2 diamonds and a spade from dummy. Now cash the 3 top honours in spades:
- If everyone follows, play trumps as prescribed and claim. The big difference is that if South shows out, you can go up and endplay North with the third trump.
- If South ruffs the third spade, you overruff, draw the last trump, cash the diamond Ace, cross to the 10 of clubs and lead a diamond to your Queen. You are home and dry if South has the diamond King or North the doubleton King (quite a good chance when he has already shown up with 5 spades).
- If North ruffs the third spade, he is endplayed if he started with 2 clubs. If he can exit with a club and the diamond finesse is wrong, you were going to fail regardless of your line of play.
