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On May 16, 4:23 am, "Cakemeister"

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I would try to set up dummy.  After the diamond king wins, club to
ace, club ruff.  Heart ace, throwing a diamond, spade ace and spade to
king.  Club ruff.  this wins with 4-2 clubs and 3-2 spades.

Sandy Barnes
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I wonder what the probability of this line is as opposed to the crossruff
line.

Unfortunately, your play fails as the cards lay, barring a defensive error.

RHO had:
Q10xx
Kxx
Jxx
Qxx

So, when you play ace of clubs, ruff a club, ace of hearts, ace of spades,
king of spades, LHO will show out. Now you can play the king of clubs and
thankfully the queen drops.

That leaves something like:

9x
-
A
Jxx

                         Q10
                         Kx
                         Jx
                         -

J
QJxxx
-
-

All RHO has to do is duck dummy's four winners and he will take the last two
tricks with the Q10 of spades.

The crossruff line which is king of diamonds, ace of hearts discarding a
club, ruff a heart, ace of diamonds discarding a heart, ruff a diamond, ruff
a heart, ace king of clubs, ruff a club, ruff a heart with the king, ruff a
club with the jack, works.

I like ruffing a heart in dummy early because if the king drops you are in
good shape.