The hold-up play is used when you hope to thwart the tempo of the opponents by refusing to take your ace on the first round.
A play very seldom used, it is highly effective and assumes only a small risk. It should be used more often by the so called "experts".
West led the ♥K, North following with the ♥4 and East with the ♥9. South, knowing West lacked entries due to his bid, figured a hold up with a favorable distribution might kill East/West's entries and followed with the ♥2.
West continued with ♥Q, and this time South took the ♥A. East now had no way of reaching West's hearts.
North and South switched to clubs and then diamonds. When East took the ♦A he could not reach his partner's hand to discard a loser.
With East forced to ruff hearts on trick 9, he was endplayed and his side could only win 3 spades, 1 heart and 1 diamond.
Had South not held up the ♥A, East could have led a heart to his partner. Hearts by West fulfills their bid.
3 comments:
You should check out Mystic Island at http://www.mysticisland.net. They have an extremely popular Duplicate System endorsed by Joe Andrews, with a realtime scoreboard displaying the hands as they happen. In addition, they offer Duplicate Pinochle and Rook, and a duplicate cut-throat Spades (both 3 handed and 4 handed) is also in the works. Be warned though, some of the most competitive players on the internet play here, so this isn't a place to come and expect an easy game.
Genial post and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you for your information.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with your opinion about that site. I played there just to test some players: they are still beginners. even refusing to learn so more about the game.
The reason?
It's simple:
Take a look at this sentence:
"Abilities required to recognize competence are the same required to recognize incompetence"
For instance, in order to correct a sentence you should know that's wrong. But, if you know that's wrong then you are competent.
So, only competent people can recognize and correct a wrong sentence.
On the countrary, who is not competent can't even notice about mistakes.
(HittoOgami)
Post a Comment