Advanced Finesses

A look at some examples of finesses that are not quite straight forward.
The links to the hands are:
With 8 cards, finesse against the Dangerous Opponent: tinyurl.com/y6ukhv5z
With 9 cards, finesse against the Dangerous Opponent, rather than risk cashing AK tinyurl.com/y8mvopc5 POLL1 How to play the Clubs : Cash AK, or finesse?
Even if the finesse fails, you will make 10 tricks tinyurl.com/ydax2a8k
On this hand East is the dangerous opponent - you must prevent him gaining the lead, as a diamond from East will defeat the contract tinyurl.com/ya9gdsor
If the finesse loses, West cannot attack diamonds, without giving you another diamond trick tinyurl.com/y8rdayme
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 tinyurl.com/y9ejzg3g OMIT from this lesson
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 which suit should you play first? tinyurl.com/46r5efct - wrong
tinyurl.com/25dm6lba - correct
Repeat Finesse and entries
You have 7 top tricks and hope to make 2 more in hearts tinyurl.com/2ycfedna If you start by leading 9H you may not be able to repeat the finesse
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Instead start by leading a low heart tinyurl.com/46r5efct

[@carridg]

Thanks Tony for sharing your tutorial videos. You have a really nice manner when sharing your knowledge. Personally I enjoy playing hands far more having studied many of your videos. I am dreadfully slow though as I attempt to remember what could be done. I hope with time I'll get quicker with practice. For me now, my weakness is bidding and would love to see more about how best to improve that aspect. Thanks again for the videos.

[@TonyStawBridgeClass]

Many thanks for your kind remarks. Glad you are finding these sessions useful.