Thursday, September 18, 2008

Restricted Choice

While I wasn't completely certain at the time, it turns out that I have correctly identified a restricted choice problem for the first time.

Dummy's trumps:
AT4

K76532
My trumps.

I led a low trump towards the king, and RHO dropped the queen.

Restricted choice says that it's better to finesse LHO for the jack. I correctly identified this, made the finesse, and lost.

No worries. Statistics is a long-term game. Hopefully I'll start to identify these situations consistently, now that I've seen it once, and I'll reap the benefits of the percentage play.

1 comment:

JR Wiegmann said...

That's the way it works - one step at a time.