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Playing in an
International team tournament I picked up:
Kxx
AQJ9xxx
Void
Qxx
I opened 1
heart
A 1 Spade
overcall on my left
2 Clubs by
partner,
2 Spades on
the right
It seems
partner is short in spades and has a good club suit, so rather than
bid around, I just bid what I thought I could probably make Six
Hearts!!
The opening
lead was the Ace of Diamonds and partner produced this dummy:
Void
10x
Jxxxx
AKJxxxx
You ruff the
Diamond lead and??
Did you ruff a
Spade in dummy and lead the 10 of Hearts for a finesse? Wrong!!
That will work
only if Right Hand Opponent has Kx of Hearts or stiff K. That is
what declarer at the other table did in 6H, and when the Heart King
did not drop on the second round, they had to lose a trick to the
Heart King and the Ace of spades later.
Did you find
the winning play?
I simply led a
low Heart to dummy’s 10. Now when the King won there was still a
trump in dummy to handle a spade lead and I was able to claim the
rest after pulling trump. It does no good for the K of Hearts to
duck as I can then finesse trump on the way back and take all the
tricks. On this one simple was best! Just give them the trump King
and you are home free.
The complete
hand was:
Fred
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