Above deal was played by one of the fine players, a dapper and ever smiling Uttam Gupta, against two stalwarts, Manas and Samir.
Sitting West manas led ♦4, ♦8 from dummy, East ♦10 and Uttam won with ♦K. Initially, south had three spades and two diamond losers. No way south could ruff a heart in the dummy as East would over ruff and two rounds of diamonds would doom the doubled contract.
Amazingly uttam made a smart move! He played a spade from the hand, West took it with ♠10, cashed a and exited with ♣4. Dummy played the ♠A, and ruffed a club, a heart to ♣K, and another club ruff in hand. South cashed ♠K and ruffed a spade in dummy. Now was a master stroke! Uttam played the ♣10 and when East ruffed with ♦6 he under ruffed with ♦5. Samir, Sitting East must have begun to squirm as he was left with the ♦A and ♦J had to give the ♦Q as ninth trick and a doubled contract!
South’s eyes must have shone with strange light!!
Well played utttam!!
Sometimes, it’s a smart move to play dumb, but it’s almost always a dumb move to act smart!
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