This deal is from the
Manchester Green Point Pairs last month. After a quick auction
West led the ace of diamonds and continued with a diamond to East's
king. A third diamond was ruffed by West, who then played a heart
to East's ace. East now played a fourth diamond and when South
ruffed with the six and West could not overruff declarer decided that
the trump position was likely to be as in the diagram above.
South played another heart, won by West who then played a club to
South's
king. South now ruffed his winning queen of hearts, then played
the ace of clubs followed by the winning queen of clubs, again ruffed
to
shorten declarer's trumps.
The end position was now as below
South now ran the eight of spades to end play East for one off, a reasonable score on the board. Thanks to John Currie who played and reported this deal. |
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