Sunday, 3 September 2017

The Right Judgement


The 2 bid was a transfer to spades. north’s 3♠ showed six spades and game invitation. despite a minimum INT, the three-card spade support, the ruffing potential in club and three aces persuaded south to bid to game. If 4♠ failed, no doubt north and south would blame each other for overbidding. 

West leads the ♣K, which is allowed to hold. south wins the ♣Q continuation and leads a spade to the king. When West discards a club on this, you have a sure trump loser. Dummy’s heart is led at trick four and East wins with the A. East’s club return is ruffed by you. How do you play from here?

The declarer continued with the J. West played low and a diamond was discarded from dummy. Judging that West would have heart length and that the K was unlikely to drop on the next round,declarer continued with the Q, king from West, ruffed in dummy. When the 10 dropped, south’s 9 was high. After a spade to the Ace, and the A was cashed, followed by the 9, on which dummy’s last diamond was discarded. East could ruff, but, dummy had the rest of tricks.

Good judgement.

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