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A
deal from a Cheadle Hulme Club Duplicate last month.
Dealer E N-S vulnerable.
You
quickly reach four hearts on the above
auction. West leads the two of diamonds to the
queen and ace. You take the top hearts in
dummy West playing the six and jack with East
following low. What do you play now?
Solution It
is tempting to try to cash the top spades to discard
a loser, but that will only work if East, who
presumably has the last trump, has three spades.
East
is marked with the king and queen of diamonds and
the top clubs for his opening bid, so simply play
a diamond towards the jack at trick four to set up
a diamond trick and create an entry to hand to
draw the last trump. If you try to cash the
spades East ruffs the second one, cashes the top
clubs and forces you with a club. You now
have to play diamonds from hand and will go two
down. The full deal is below.
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