No Help From Opponents

South opened 2NT and his partner transferred to show five spades. Having only a doubleton spade, South chose to play in 3NT. 

The opening lead was ♥7. South’s first thought was to set up dummy’s spades, but he shouldn’t have expected too much help from his opponents. South won dummy’s ♥J at trick one and played a spade from dummy to ♠Q. Opponent ducked the first round. 

South continued spade and East won and played another heart. South had no more spades in his hand so he couldn’t win the heart in hand to play another spade. If he had won the heart in dummy that was, the last entry to spade would have vanished. Down one. 

South should have played a low heart from dummy and won the first trick in hand with ♥A. Now he should have played on spades and even with the defensive hold up play South would have had the ♥J and the ♥K as entries to set up and run spade suit. 

“Bridge partners are like parking spots, the good ones are taken and the available ones are handicapped!” 

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