A
deal from an online MCBA pairs event.
John
Holland arrived in four hearts on the above
auction. West started with the ace and king of
diamonds and a third diamond to East's queen.
East
now played a heart and John took the ace and king,
noting the fall of the jack on his left. Since
West had shown five spades and was likely to hold
the last diamond, otherwise East would have played
it to try for a trump promotion and was unlikely to
have a singleton club, since she might have led it,
John decided to play West for a 5242
distribution. He next played the ace and king
of spades throwing a club from hand, followed by a
spade ruff, a club to dummy and another spade ruff
followed by another club to dummy.
The
position was now as below
When
North played a club East's trump trick
disappeared. This is known as a double trump
coup as South had to ruff twice to shorten his
trumps to the same length as East's.
Thanks
to John Holland for reporting this deal
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