West led the Heart King and declarer had to choose line of play. West’s two-suited cue bid marked with at
least ten cards in hearts and (probably) clubs combined. After winning the Heart Ace, declarer started
with a spade to the King and decided to believe that West’s Spade 10 was a
singleton. Since it was against the odds
that the Diamond Jack would drop, he decided to cater to less favourable
diamond layouts. He abandoned trumps and
started diamonds, to ruff out East’s long Jack.
He was horrified to see West’s Diamond Jack appear on the second round
because now he could no longer cash his five diamond winners.
He threw a heart and a club on the nest two diamonds, then ruffed a
heart, crossed to a second trump, and ruffed another heart. He was down to one high trump in each hand
while East held the Spade 98, apparently due to take a trump trick. Declarer played the Club Ace and Club Queen,
which West won as East had to follow.
West had to play a club or a heart, and so declarer had to score his
trumps separately at tricks twelve and thirteen. He had made his slam despite scoring only
four of his five diamond winners.
Even if you suffer an early setback, never give up.
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