Board
9
North
Deals
None
Vul |
| ♠ |
A
K 7 |
| ♥ |
7
6 5 2 |
| ♦ |
K
J 3 |
| ♣ |
K
10 9 |
|
| ♠ |
Q
J 10 8 6 2 |
| ♥ |
9
3 |
| ♦ |
8
5 |
| ♣ |
Q
5 4 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ♠ |
9
5 4 3 |
| ♥ |
A
J 10 8 4 |
| ♦ |
2 |
| ♣ |
A
J 7 |
|
|
| |
| ♠ |
— |
| ♥ |
K
Q |
| ♦ |
A
Q 10 9 7 6 4 |
| ♣ |
8
6 3 2 |
|
You are south as declarer in 5 ♦,
but when you see dummy, you realise 3NT would be a better contract, and
you may be heading for a poor score at duplicate pairs.However since not
all pairs will be in game or in 3NT, you must set about making 11 tricks
The opening lead is Q♠
and its over to you
This is tricky. Discard the
KQ ♥
on the AK.♠
.Draw trumps ending
in hand and take the ♣
finesse with the 10 or covering West's Q♣,
repeating it, if necessary. There are 3 honours missing in the suit and
provided East does not hold all three the contract is safe, as you see.
The temptation is to discard two ♣s
on the A and K spades,
but then you need the A♣
to be with West, which it is not.