Finesses and Entries

A look at some hand involving finesses and maintaining your entries carefully. The hands played are: 1. With 9 cards, finesse against the Dangerous Opponent, rather than risk cashing AK http://tinyurl.com/y8mvopc5 POLL1 How to play the Clubs : Cash AK, or finesse? 2. Even if the finesse fails, you will make 10 tricks http://tinyurl.com/ydax2a8k 3. https://tinyurl.com/yohenoqx Finesse to avoid the danger hand POLL 2 Which is the DANGER hand? https://tinyurl.com/yor5xhvo If the finesse fails 4. Repeat Finesse: When this hand was played only 2 made 1NT http://tinyurl.com/y4ulg3u9 5. Repeat Finesse and entries You have 7 top tricks and hope to make 2 more in hearts https://tinyurl.com/2ycfedna If you start by leading 9H you may not be able to repeat the finesse https://tinyurl.com/2b88un7y Instead start by leading a low heart 6. You must play the diamonds in such a way to prevent East from gaining the lead. Only if East has QJx will she regain the lead http://tinyurl.com/y9ejzg3g 7. You may lose the lead to KD and to AH – you should play Hearts first – Lose to the dangerous opponent first. You can only lose KD to the less dangerous opponent. POLL 3 How many top tricks do you have? POLL 4 which suit should you play first? https://tinyurl.com/46r5efct - wrong https://tinyurl.com/25dm6lba - correct